offa

English

Preposition

offa

  1. (colloquial) Off of.

Verb

offa

  1. Pronunciation spelling of offer.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *yffl (“morsel”).[1] Perhaps related to Welsh yfflon (“pieces, bits”).

Pronunciation

Noun

offa f (genitive offae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative offa offae
Genitive offae offārum
Dative offae offīs
Accusative offam offās
Ablative offā offīs
Vocative offa offae

Derived terms

References
  • “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
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