offensa

offensa

1. third-person singular past historic of offenser

From the verb offendo (“I strike against”).

offēnsa f (genitive offēnsae); first declension

1. A striking or grating against any thing
2. Offence, disfavor, displeasure, hatred; enmity

First-declension noun.

offēnsā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of offēnsō

• “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