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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
- done with, performed, finished, having finished
- Synonyms: absolutus, complētus, perfectus, factus, effectus
- Antonyms: incohatus, infectus, imperfectus
- dead, deceased
- Synonyms: mortuus, exanimis
- Antonym: vīvus
- defunct
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
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