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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fūnere, ablative case of fūnus (“death”).
Pronunciation
Noun
funere m (plural funeri)
- (literary) bloodshed, carnage, slaughter
- Synonyms: esizio, strage
1887, Giosuè Carducci, “La leggenda di Teodorico [The Legend of Theodoric]”, in Rime nuove [New Rhymes], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, Libro VI, page 694, lines 13–16:Quando il ferro d’Ildebrando ¶ su la donna si calò ¶ e dal funere nefando ¶ egli solo ritornò.- When Hildebrand's iron ¶ descended upon the woman ¶ and, from the nefandous bloodshed ¶ he alone returned.
Further reading
Latin
Noun
fūnere
- ablative singular of fūnus