offendas
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. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...tuom praeter me alterum, inquam, adveniens faciam ut offendas domi, Davo prognatum patre eodem quo ego sum, forma..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...circumspectius faciendum est, quia nihil interest quo modo offendas, et aperta figura perdit hoc ipsum quod figura..."Liber VI
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...potius amentia, in hoc totum diem impendere ut offendas, ut inimicum relinquas ad quem tamquam amicissimum veneris? Disertior..."