offensa

French

Verb

offensa

1. third-person singular past historic of offenser

Latin

Etymology

From the past participle of offendere (“to hit against”). Compare repulsa, formed the same way.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔfˈfẽː.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ofˈfɛn.sa]

Noun

offēnsa f (genitive offēnsae); first declension

1. offense, violation of law
2. disfavor, hatred, enmity
3. injury, affront, wrong
4. inconvenience, discomfort

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	offēnsa	offēnsae
genitive	offēnsae	offēnsārum
dative	offēnsae	offēnsīs
accusative	offēnsam	offēnsās
ablative	offēnsā	offēnsīs
vocative	offēnsa	offēnsae

Descendants

• Asturian: ofiensa
• Catalan: ofensa
• French: offense
• Galician: ofensa
• Italian: offesa
• Portuguese: ofensa
• Spanish: ofensa

Verb

offēnsā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of offēnsō

References

• “offensa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “offensa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "offensa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “offensa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) unpopularity: offensa populi voluntas
    

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: of‧fen‧sa

Noun

offensa f (plural offensas)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of ofensa
   • 1933, Graciliano Ramos, chapter XII, in Cahetés‎, 1st edition, Rio de Janeiro: Schmidt, page 97:

     Era, sem contestação, uma offensa mortal. Pois não tornava a pisar ali. Fosse tudo para o diabo.

     It was, undoubtedly, a mortal insult. In that case, I wouldn’t step a foot there again. It could all go to hell.