offendam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →offendo, offendere, offendi, offensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
offend, give offense (to); displease/annoy/vex; trouble/upset, hurt (feelings);; strike/knock against; bump into; stumble upon; check, stop short; spoil/harm;; come upon, meet, find, encounter, be faced with; run aground; violate/wrong;
sg. fut. act. ind. 1stsg. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...haec, quom ego a foro revortar, facite ut offendam parata, vorsa sparsa, tersa strata, lautaque unctaque omnia..."Curculio
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...quem in cursu capite aut cubito aut pectore offendam aut genu. ita nunc subito, propere et celere obiectumst..."Hecyra
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...certo sciam? quonam modo, Philumena mea, nunc te offendam adfectam? nam si periclum ullum in te inest, perisse..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...notabit, fiet Aristarchus, nec dicet: "Cur ego amicum offendam in nugis?" Hae nugae seria ducent in mala derisum..."