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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
funus m inan
- (archaic, informal) funeral
- Synonym: pohřeb
Declension
Declension of funus (hard masculine inanimate)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “funus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “funus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “funus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *fūnos, possibly from earlier *θūnos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰu-Hnós, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”), which would make it a cognate with English death.
Pronunciation
Noun
fūnus n (genitive fūneris); third declension
- funeral
- Synonym: sepultūra
- death
- Synonyms: mors, fātum, exitus, interitus, perniciēs, somnus, fīnis, sopor
- dead body, corpse
- Synonyms: corpus, cadāver, mors, caedēs
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
References
- “funus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “funus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- funus 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)
- funus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be interred (at the expense of the state, at one's own cost): funere efferri or simply efferri (publice; publico, suo sumptu)
- to carry out the funeral obsequies: funus alicui facere, ducere (Cluent. 9. 28)
- to attend a person's funeral: funus alicuius exsequi
- to attend a person's funeral: exsequias alicuius funeris prosequi
- to celebrate the obsequies: funus or exsequias celebrare
- “funus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “funus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 251