defunctio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *bʰunégti

Proto-Italic *fungōr

Latin fungor

Latin dēfungor

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin dēfūnctiō

From dēfungor + -tiō.

Noun

dēfūnctiō f (genitive dēfūnctiōnis); third declension

1. execution (of a task), performance
2. death

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dēfūnctiō	dēfūnctiōnēs
genitive	dēfūnctiōnis	dēfūnctiōnum
dative	dēfūnctiōnī	dēfūnctiōnibus
accusative	dēfūnctiōnem	dēfūnctiōnēs
ablative	dēfūnctiōne	dēfūnctiōnibus
vocative	dēfūnctiō	dēfūnctiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: defunció
• Portuguese: defunção
• Spanish: defunción

References

• “defunctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "defunctio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “defunctio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.