offerte

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• Hyphenation: of‧fer‧te

offerte f (plural offertes or offerten, diminutive offertetje n)

1. quotation (naming of a price)

• aanbiedingsbrief

• → Indonesian: oferte

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.fɛʁt/

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin offerta.

offerte f (plural offertes)

1. (obsolete) offer, proposal

   Synonym: offre

   une offerte de prix ― price offer, price quote

   • 1788, Nova acta Academiae scientiarum imperialis petropolitanae, volume 2, Petropoli Typis Academiae Scientiarum, page 37:

     Le 11 Novembre. Madame la Princesse de Daschkaw a envoyé: Conspectus nouissimae, ac omnium locupletissimae Sacrorum Conciliorum editionis, que l’Imprimeur Antoine Zatta de Venise a publié & qu’il offre à la Bibliotheque académique en échange de quelques ouvrages imprimés à l’Académie. Cette offerte a été acceptée.

     The 11th of November. Madam Princess of Daschkaw has sent: Conspectus nouissimae, ac omnium locupletissimae Sacrorum Conciliorum editionis, which the printer Antoine Zatta of Venice has published & which he offers to the Academic Library in exchange of some works printed at the Academie. This offer was accepted.

2. (Christianity, archaic) offertory

   Synonym: offertoire

• Not to be confused with offrande.
• The sense “offer, proposal” is obsolete, but is found in the locution offerte de prix, which still has some currency in Belgian French.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

offerte f sg

1. feminine singular of offert

• “offerte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

offerte f

1. plural of offerta

offerte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of offerō