defunctus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect active (or passive, with active meaning) participle of dēfungor (“have done with, perform, finish”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /deːˈfuːnk.tus/, [d̪eːˈfuːŋkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /deˈfunk.tus/, [d̪eˈfuŋkt̪us]
Participle
dēfūnctus (feminine dēfūncta, neuter dēfūnctum); first/second-declension participle
- done with, performed, finished, having finished
- Synonyms: absolutus, complētus, perfectus, factus, effectus
- Antonyms: incohatus, infectus, imperfectus
- Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 4:
- dead, deceased
- defunct
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | dēfūnctus | dēfūncta | dēfūnctum | dēfūnctī | dēfūnctae | dēfūncta | |
Genitive | dēfūnctī | dēfūnctae | dēfūnctī | dēfūnctōrum | dēfūnctārum | dēfūnctōrum | |
Dative | dēfūnctō | dēfūnctō | dēfūnctīs | ||||
Accusative | dēfūnctum | dēfūnctam | dēfūnctum | dēfūnctōs | dēfūnctās | dēfūncta | |
Ablative | dēfūnctō | dēfūnctā | dēfūnctō | dēfūnctīs | |||
Vocative | dēfūncte | dēfūncta | dēfūnctum | dēfūnctī | dēfūnctae | dēfūncta |
Descendants
References
- “defunctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “defunctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- defunctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a man who has held every office (up to the consulship): vir defunctus honoribus
- a man who has held every office (up to the consulship): vir defunctus honoribus
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰewg- (enjoy)
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin participles
- Latin perfect participles
- Latin first and second declension participles
- Latin terms with quotations
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook