offendo

• IPA^(key): /ofˈfɛn.do/
• Rhymes: -ɛndo
• Hyphenation: of‧fèn‧do

offendo

1. first-person singular present indicative of offendere

• effondo

From ob- (“against”) +‎ *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike, to kill”). Compare dēfendō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ofˈfen.doː/, [ɔfˈfɛn̪d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ofˈfen.do/, [ofˈfɛn̪d̪o]

offendō (present infinitive offendere, perfect active offendī, supine offēnsum); third conjugation

1. to hit, thrust, strike against something
   • c. 40 BCE, De Bello Hispaniensi, chapter 23:

     Ita cum eius [mīlitis] compar proelium facere coepisset, cum undique sē circumvenīrī animum advertisset, ingressus pedem offendit.

     So, although his [the soldier's] partner had begun to fight, when he noticed that he was being surrounded on all sides, after starting to leave, he hit his foot.

   • 30 BCE, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Sermo 1.2‎^[1], archived from the original on 2017-05-27, lines 74-78:

     Quidquid sum ego, quamvīs
     īnfrā Lūcīlī cēnsum ingeniumque, tamen mē
     cum magnīs vīxisse invīta fatēbitur ūsque
     invidia et fragilī quaerēns inlīdere dentem
     offendet solidō [...]

     Whatever I am like, though
     inferior to the wealth and talent of Lucilius, nevertheless, that I
     have lived with great men [is something that] reluctant envy will fully admit
     and, seeking to sink her tooth into something soft,
     will strike it against something solid [...]

   • c. 95 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria‎^[2], archived from the original on 2020-06-03, book 6, chapter 3, line 67:

     An nōn plūrima dīcuntur quod refert Cicerō dē homine praelongō, caput eum ad fornicem Fabium offendisse [...]

     Rather, not many things are said like what Cicero reports about a very tall man, that he hit his head on the Fabian arch [...]

2. to meet, encounter (someone)

   Synonyms: inveniō, obeō, occurrō, congredior, prōcēdō

3. (figuratively) to suffer damage, receive an injury
4. to fail, be unfortunate
5. to find fault, take offence
6. to stumble, blunder, commit offence or sin

   Synonyms: committō, dēlinquō, lābor, errō

7. to shock, vex, offend, mortify, scandalize

• Catalan: ofendre
• Italian: offendere
• Old French: offendre
  • Middle French: offendre
    • → Middle English: offenden
      • English: offend
      • Scots: offend
• Sicilian: affènniri
• Spanish: ofender
• Venetan: ofendar

offendō f (genitive offendinis); third declension

1. an offence

Third-declension noun.

• (an offense): offēnsa, offēnsiō

• “offendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “offendo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• offendo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to meet, come across a person; to meet casually: offendere, nancisci aliquem
    
  • to hurt some one's feelings: offendere aliquem, alicuius animum
    
  • to hurt some one's feelings: offendere apud aliquem (Cluent. 23. 63)
    
  • to feel hurt by something: offendi aliqua re (animus offenditur)
    
  • to have something to say against a person, to object to him: offendere in aliquo (Mil. 36. 99)
    
  • to take a false step in a thing; to commit an indiscretion: offendere in aliqua re (Cluent. 36. 98)