offero
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) ob- (“towards”) + ferō (“bear, carry”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈof.fe.roː/, [ˈɔfːɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈof.fe.ro/, [ˈɔfːero]
Verb
offerō (present infinitive offerre, perfect active obtulī, supine oblātum); third conjugation, irregular
- I bring before or bring to, present, offer, show, place before, exhibit.
- I expose.
- I cause, occasion, bestow, inflict.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) I offer to God, consecrate, dedicate.
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) I offer up, sacrifice.
Conjugation
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Descendants
- English: offer
References
- “offero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “offero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- offero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to sacrifice oneself for one's country: se morti offerre pro salute patriae
- a favourable[1] opportunity presents itself: occasio datur, offertur
- to expose oneself to peril: periculis se offerre
- to risk one's life: salutem, vitam suam in discrimen offerre (not exponere)
- to sacrifice oneself for one's country: se morti offerre pro salute patriae
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *telh₂-
- Latin terms prefixed with ob-
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- Ecclesiastical Latin
- Latin third conjugation verbs
- Latin irregular verbs
- Latin suppletive verbs
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook