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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of perfungor.
Participle
perfūnctus (feminine perfūncta, neuter perfūnctum); first/second-declension participle
- performed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “perfunctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “perfunctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- perfunctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a man who has held many offices: honoribus ac reipublicae muneribus perfunctus (De Or. 1. 45)
- to retire from service: militia functum, perfunctum esse