functus

English

Adjective

functus (not comparable)

1. (law) Functus officio.

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of fungor.

Participle

fūnctus (feminine fūncta, neuter fūnctum); first/second-declension participle

1. having performed, executed a task or function
2. having suffered, endured

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fūnctus	fūncta	fūnctum		fūnctī	fūnctae	fūncta
genitive	fūnctī	fūnctae	fūnctī		fūnctōrum	fūnctārum	fūnctōrum
dative	fūnctō	fūnctae	fūnctō		fūnctīs
accusative	fūnctum	fūnctam	fūnctum		fūnctōs	fūnctās	fūncta
ablative	fūnctō	fūnctā	fūnctō		fūnctīs
vocative	fūncte	fūncta	fūnctum		fūnctī	fūnctae	fūncta

Derived terms

• fūnctiō
• functus officio

Descendants

• Italian: funto

References

• “functus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “functus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “functus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to retire from service: militia functum, perfunctum esse