offerte

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Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: of‧fer‧te

Noun[edit]

offerte f (plural offertes or offerten, diminutive offertetje n)

  1. quotation (naming of a price)

Synonyms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Indonesian: oferte

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin offerta.

Noun[edit]

offerte f (plural offertes)

  1. (obsolete) offer, proposal
    Synonym: offre
    une offerte de prixprice offer, price quote
    • 1788, Nova acta Academiae scientiarum imperialis petropolitanae, volume 2, Petropoli Typis Academiae Scientiarum, page 37:
      Le 11 Novembre. Madame la Princesse de Daschkaw a envoyé: Conspectus nouissimae, ac omnium locupletissimae Sacrorum Conciliorum editionis, que l’Imprimeur Antoine Zatta de Venise a publié & qu’il offre à la Bibliotheque académique en échange de quelques ouvrages imprimés à l’Académie. Cette offerte a été acceptée.
      The 11th of November. Madam Princess of Daschkaw has sent: Conspectus nouissimae, ac omnium locupletissimae Sacrorum Conciliorum editionis, which the printer Antoine Zatta of Venice has published & which he offers to the Academic Library in exchange of some works printed at the Academie. This offer was accepted.
  2. (Christianity, archaic) offertory
    Synonym: offertoire
Usage notes[edit]
  • Not to be confused with offrande.
  • The sense “offer, proposal” is obsolete, but is found in the locution offerte de prix, which still has some currency in Belgian French.

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle[edit]

offerte f sg

  1. feminine singular of offert

Further reading[edit]

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

offerte f

  1. plural of offerta

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

offerte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of offerō