Latin

Noun

offensiō f ‎(genitive offensiōnis); third declension

1. offense
2. accident, misfortune, mishap

Inflection

Third declension.

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “offensio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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