The corpus record — Latin

offensus2

offensus2 · P. a

Part. and P. a., from 1. offendo

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

1. offensus — Lewis & Short

offensus, a, um, P. a., from 1. offendo.

Part. and

2. offensus — Lewis & Short

offensus, ūs, m.1. offendo,

I a striking against, a shock (poet. and in post-class. prose).

I Lit., Lucr. 2, 223; 4, 359; Tert. adv. Marc. 4, 39.—

II Transf.

a A lighting upon, meeting with: per offensus armorum, Stat. Th. 12, 283.—

b An offence, vexation, annoyance: sin vita in offensu est, Lucr. 3, 941.

In the wild

offensui Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.1.33
offensibus Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.333
offensui Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.39
offensibus Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.359

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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