offa

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English

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Preposition

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offa

  1. (colloquial) Off of.
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Verb

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offa

  1. Pronunciation spelling of offer.

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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Uncertain. Perhaps from a Celtic language;[1] links have been proposed to Welsh yfflon (“pieces, bits”) and oddf (“knot, bulb”).[2][3]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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offa f (genitive offae); first declension

  1. a morsel; a piece; a chunk
  2. a dumpling

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative offa offae
genitive offae offārum
dative offae offīs
accusative offam offās
ablative offā offīs
vocative offa offae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Italian: fetta

References

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  • “offa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “offa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • offa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 742
  2. ^ Walde, Alois (1910) “offa”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 537
  3. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “offa”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 459
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