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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fuˈnɛ.sto/
- Rhymes: -ɛsto
- Hyphenation: fu‧nè‧sto
Etymology 1
From Latin funestus.
Adjective
funesto (feminine funesta, masculine plural funesti, feminine plural funeste)
- fatal
- disastrous
- gloomy, dismal
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
funesto
- first-person singular present indicative of funestare
Further reading
- funesto in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- funesto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- funesto in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- funesto in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- funèsto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- funèsto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From fūnestus without a suffix.
Pronunciation
Verb
fūnestō (present infinitive fūnestāre, perfect active fūnestāvī, supine fūnestātum); first conjugation
- (rare) to bring to the grave
c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE,
Catullus,
Carmina 64.200–201:
- Sed quālī sōlam Thēseus mē mente relīquit,
tālī mente, deae, fūnestet sēque suōsque.- But may Theseus, with the same mind as he deserted me,
bring to the grave, goddesses, himself and his kind.
- a. 440 CE, Salvian, Ad ecclesiam 3.66 in Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (volume VIII), Franz Pauly, Vienna (1883), page 291, lines 16–18:
- Et mīrum est, quod hoc ipsum sinis, ut iam fūnestātō tē tua habeat, et nōn iam exportātō atque tumulātō.
- And it's a wonder that you even allow that he inherits your things with you interred, and not conveyed away or entombed already.
- to pollute, disgrace or dishonour (especially with murder)
Conjugation
Adjective
fūnestō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fūnestus
References
- “funesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “funesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- funesto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “fūnestō” in volume VI 1, column 1583, line 76 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- “fūnestō” on page 821/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin funestus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
funesto (feminine funesta, masculine plural funestos, feminine plural funestas)
- fatal
- gloomy, dismal
Derived terms
Further reading
- “funesto”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “funesto”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “funesto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “funesto”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “funesto”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “funesto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin funestus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fuˈnesto/
- Rhymes: -esto
- Syllabification: fu‧nes‧to
Adjective
funesto (feminine funesta, masculine plural funestos, feminine plural funestas)
- fateful
- dismal
- baleful
Derived terms
Further reading