offensio

Latin

Etymology

From offendō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

offēnsiō f (genitive offēnsiōnis); third declension

1. offense, offence
2. accident, misfortune, mishap

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	offēnsiō	offēnsiōnēs
genitive	offēnsiōnis	offēnsiōnum
dative	offēnsiōnī	offēnsiōnibus
accusative	offēnsiōnem	offēnsiōnēs
ablative	offēnsiōne	offēnsiōnibus
vocative	offēnsiō	offēnsiōnēs

References

• “offensio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “offensio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• offensio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hurt some one's feelings: in offensionem alicuius incurrere (Verr. 1. 12. 35)
    
  • to give offense to, to shock a person (used of things, vid. sect. V. 18): offensionem habere
    
  • there is something repulsive about the thing: res habet aliquid offensionis
    
  • unpopularity: offensio populi, popularis