defunctus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active (or passive, with active meaning) participle of dēfungor (“have done with, perform, finish”)

Pronunciation

Participle

dēfūnctus (feminine dēfūncta, neuter dēfūnctum); first/second-declension participle

  1. done with, performed, finished, having finished
    Synonyms: absolutus, complētus, perfectus, factus, effectus
    Antonyms: incohatus, infectus, imperfectus
  2. dead, deceased
    Synonyms: mortuus, exanimis
    Antonym: vīvus
  3. defunct

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative dēfūnctus dēfūncta dēfūnctum dēfūnctī dēfūnctae dēfūncta
genitive dēfūnctī dēfūnctae dēfūnctī dēfūnctōrum dēfūnctārum dēfūnctōrum
dative dēfūnctō dēfūnctae dēfūnctō dēfūnctīs
accusative dēfūnctum dēfūnctam dēfūnctum dēfūnctōs dēfūnctās dēfūncta
ablative dēfūnctō dēfūnctā dēfūnctō dēfūnctīs
vocative dēfūncte dēfūncta dēfūnctum dēfūnctī dēfūnctae dēfūncta

Descendants

  • Catalan: difunt
  • Dalmatian: defuant
  • English: defunct
  • French: défunt
  • Galician: defunto
  • Italian: defunto
  • Portuguese: defunto
  • Romanian: defunct
  • Spanish: difunto

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
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