inoffensus

== Latin == === Etymology === From 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 unobstructed, unhindered, uninterrupted ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== → Italian: inoffeso (semi-learned) → 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