funus

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfunus]

Noun

funus m inan

1. (archaic, informal) funeral

   Synonym: pohřeb

Declension

Declension of funus (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	funus	funusy
genitive	funusu	funusů
dative	funusu	funusům
accusative	funus	funusy
vocative	funuse	funusy
locative	funuse, funusu	funusech
instrumental	funusem	funusy

Derived terms

• s křížkem po funuse

Further reading

• “funus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “funus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “funus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fūnos, of uncertain origin. Possibly from earlier *θūnos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰu-Hnós, from a root *dʰew-, which would make it a cognate with English death if in the "to die" sense, or alternatively Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”) if in a different sense meaning "rampart".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.nus]

Noun

fūnus n (genitive fūneris); third declension

1. funeral

   Synonym: sepultūra

2. death

   Synonyms: mors, fātum, exitus, interitus, perniciēs, somnus, fīnis, sopor

3. dead body, corpse

   Synonyms: corpus, cadāver, mors, caedēs

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	fūnus	fūnera
genitive	fūneris	fūnerum
dative	fūnerī	fūneribus
accusative	fūnus	fūnera
ablative	fūnere	fūneribus
vocative	fūnus	fūnera

Derived terms

• fūnebris
• fūnerālis
• fūnerārius
• fūnereus
• fūnestus

Further reading

• “funus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “funus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "funus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• funus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be interred (at the expense of the state, at one's own cost): funere efferri or simply efferri (publice; publico, suo sumptu)
    
  • to carry out the funeral obsequies: funus alicui facere, ducere (Cluent. 9. 28)
    
  • to attend a person's funeral: funus alicuius exsequi
    
  • to attend a person's funeral: exsequias alicuius funeris prosequi
    
  • to celebrate the obsequies: funus or exsequias celebrare
    
• “funus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “funus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin