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offensio

obstacle, offence

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Where it lives

Miltiades 1 · 7.5/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 4 · 6.88/10k
Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Atticus 2 · 5.66/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 4 · 4.28/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Pro M. Marcello 1 · 3.61/10k
Pro M. Scauro 1 · 3.37/10k
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 2 · 3/10k
Annales 26 · 2.93/10k
Pro Rege Deiotaro 1 · 2.56/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k

Densest 12 of 58 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. offensio — de Vaan

offensio 'obstacle, offence' (Varro+), ojfensare 'to collide with' (Varro+), offensus, -lis 'collision' (Lucr.+), Pit. V (e)nd-. PIE *gwhen-dh- 'to hit, strike9 or ipv.sg. *gwhndhi. IE cognates: Olr. gonaid, 'gom feralis 'wounds, kills', W. gwan 'to thrust, hit', MCo. gwana 'to sting', OBret. goanqff^Xo punish, sting' < *gwan-e/o-\ Hit. kue(n)Ji/ kun- / kuua(n)~ 'to kill', Lye. 3p qaftti 'they destroy'; Skt. pn 3s, … — [de Vaan, s.v. offensio, p. 224]

2. offensĭo — Lewis & Short

offensĭo, ōnis, f.1. offendo,

I a striking against any thing; a tripping, stumbling (class.).

I Lit.: pedis offensio, Cic. Div. 2, 40, 84; in plur.: offensiones pedum, Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 24: dentium, Lact. Opif. Dei, 10, 13. —Absol.: offensione sonitūs, Vitr. 9, 8, 3.—

B Transf., that against which one stumbles, a stumbling-block: ut nihil offensionis haberet, Cic. Univ. 6, 15.—

II Trop.

A An offence given to any one; hence, disfavor, aversion, disgust, dislike, hatred, discredit, bad reputation, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 3, 9; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 69, § 178 (for which: existimatio offensa nostri ordinis, id. ib. 2, 2, 47, § 117): sapiens praetor offensionem vitat aequalitate decernendi, id. Mur. 20, 41: suscipere invidiam atque offensionem apud aliquem, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 55, § 137: in odium offensionemque populi Romani inruere, id. ib. 1, 12, 35: cadere, id. N. D. 1, 30, 85: offensionem excipere, id. Inv. 1, 21, 30: subire, Plin. 35, 4, 7, § 23: adferre, Cic. Att. 1, 17, 1: offensiones accendere, Tac. A. 2, 57: hoc apud alios offensionem habet, displeases them, Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 9. —

B An offence which one receives; displeasure, vexation: habere ad res certas vitiosam offensionem atque fastidium, Cic. Tusc. 4, 10, 23: mihi majori offensioni sunt quam delectationi possessiunculae meae, give me more vexation than pleasure, id. Att. 13, 23, 3.—

2 A complaint, indisposition; an accident, misfortune, mishap, failure: corporum offensiones, Cic. Tusc. 4, 14, 31: graves solent offensiones esse ex gravibus morbis, si qua culpa commissa est, id. Fam. 16, 10, 1: habet enim nihil quod in offensione deperdat, i.e. if he loses his cause, id. Div. in Caecil. 22, 71: offensiones belli, misfortunes, defeats, id. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28: offensionum et repulsarum ignominia, i.e. refusals, id. Off. 1, 21, 71.—

C That which causes one to offend or sin, a stumbling-block (eccl. Lat.): unusquisque offensiones oculorum suorum abiciat, Vulg. Ezech. 20, 7: nemini dantes ullam offensionem, id. 2 Cor. 6, 3: lapis offensionis, id. 1 Pet. 2, 8 al.

In the wild

offensionis Cicero, Letters to Atticus 15.25.1
offensione Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 33.14
offensionis Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13.9.2
offensionem Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 10.83.26
offensionis Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.47
offensio Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 2.4.6

6 of 162 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. offensio (scan pp. 224-225; entry #544). Root candidates: *gyhen-.

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