inoffensus
Latin
Etymology
in- (“un-”) + offēnsus (“struck”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɪ.nɔfˈfẽː.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [i.nofˈfɛn.sus]
Adjective
inoffēnsus (feminine inoffēnsa, neuter inoffēnsum, adverb inoffēnsē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | inoffēnsus | inoffēnsa | inoffēnsum | inoffēnsī | inoffēnsae | inoffēnsa | |
| genitive | inoffēnsī | inoffēnsae | inoffēnsī | inoffēnsōrum | inoffēnsārum | inoffēnsōrum | |
| dative | inoffēnsō | inoffēnsae | inoffēnsō | inoffēnsīs | |||
| accusative | inoffēnsum | inoffēnsam | inoffēnsum | inoffēnsōs | inoffēnsās | inoffēnsa | |
| ablative | inoffēnsō | inoffēnsā | inoffēnsō | inoffēnsīs | |||
| vocative | inoffēnse | inoffēnsa | inoffēnsum | inoffēnsī | inoffēnsae | inoffēnsa | |
Descendants
- Spanish: inofenso
References
- “inoffensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inoffensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers