funestus
Latin
Etymology
From fūnus (“funeral, burial; death”) + -tus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fuːˈnɛs.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fuˈnɛs.tus]
Adjective
fūnestus (feminine fūnesta, neuter fūnestum, comparative fūnestior, superlative fūnestissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- deadly, fatal
- mournful, dismal
- c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.20:
- Miserum funestumque spectāmen aspexī
- I witnessed a pitiable and dismal spectacle
- Miserum funestumque spectāmen aspexī
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | fūnestus | fūnesta | fūnestum | fūnestī | fūnestae | fūnesta | |
| genitive | fūnestī | fūnestae | fūnestī | fūnestōrum | fūnestārum | fūnestōrum | |
| dative | fūnestō | fūnestae | fūnestō | fūnestīs | |||
| accusative | fūnestum | fūnestam | fūnestum | fūnestōs | fūnestās | fūnesta | |
| ablative | fūnestō | fūnestā | fūnestō | fūnestīs | |||
| vocative | fūneste | fūnesta | fūnestum | fūnestī | fūnestae | fūnesta | |
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References
- “funestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “funestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “funestus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.