offerte
See also: Offerte
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.fɛʁt/
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin offerta.
Noun
offerte f (plural offertes)
- (obsolete) offer, proposal
- Synonym: offre
- une offerte de prix ― price 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.
- (Christianity, archaic) offertory
- Synonym: offertoire
Usage notes
- 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- The sense “offer, proposal” is obsolete, but is found in the locution offerte de prix, which still has some currency in Belgian French.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
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Further reading
- “offerte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Latin
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