functio

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Latin

Etymology

Action noun of the verb fungor (“I perform, execute”).
Derived from root fug- ("perform", "execute") (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”)) with nasal infix (-n-) irregularly borrowed from present tense forms (fung-) + -tiō (“nominal derivational suffix”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fūnctiō f (genitive fūnctiōnis); third declension

  1. performance, execution (of a task)
  2. (mathematics) function

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fūnctiō fūnctiōnēs
Genitive fūnctiōnis fūnctiōnum
Dative fūnctiōnī fūnctiōnibus
Accusative fūnctiōnem fūnctiōnēs
Ablative fūnctiōne fūnctiōnibus
Vocative fūnctiō fūnctiōnēs

Descendants

References

  • “functio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “functio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • functio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • functio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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