defunctus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈfuːŋk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈfuŋk.tus]

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

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.4:

     Velut defuncti regis imperio

     So they [wanted to] perform the king’s order

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

• Asturian: difuntu, defuntu
• 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a man who has held every office (up to the consulship): vir defunctus honoribus