funere

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See also: fuñere

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fūnere, ablative case of fūnus (death).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfu.ne.re/
  • Rhymes: -unere
  • Hyphenation: fù‧ne‧re

Noun

funere m (plural funeri)

  1. (literary) bloodshed, carnage, slaughter
    Synonyms: esizio, strage
    • 1887, Giosuè Carducci, “La leggenda di Teodorico”, in Rime nuove, 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

  1. ablative singular of fūnus