funus

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”), which would make it a cognate with English death.

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.nus/, [ˈfuːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.nus/, [ˈfuːnus]

Noun

fūnus n (genitive fūneris); third declension

1. funeral
2. death

Declension

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

Case	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

References

• “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