fungor

See also: Fungor

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (to enjoy).

Pronunciation

Verb

fungor (present infinitive fungī, perfect active fūnctus sum); third conjugation, deponent

  1. to perform, execute, administer, discharge, finish, complete or end something, observe (with ablative of the task or function)
    Synonyms: perficiō, dēfungor, cōnficiō, agō, efficiō, cumulō, absolvō, inclūdō, claudō, expleō, nāvō, conclūdō, condō, peragō, perpetrō, patrō, exsequor, trānsigō, gerō, exhauriō
    vice alicuius fungorI deputise for someone

Usage notes

  • The verb Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and others like it, ūtor, fruor, potior, vescor, and their compounds, regularly govern the ablative case.
  • In early Latin, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) governed the accusative case.[1]

Conjugation

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. Charles Edwin Bennett, 1914. Syntax of Early Latin: The cases, page 211

Further reading

  • fungor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fungor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fungor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to perform the last rites for a person: supremo officio in aliquem fungi
    • (ambiguous) to live a perfect life: virtutis perfectae perfecto munere fungi (Tusc. 1. 45. 109)
    • (ambiguous) to do one's duty: officio suo fungi
    • (ambiguous) to perform official duties: munere fungi, muneri praeesse
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 153
  • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
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