functio

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Derived from fūnctus, perfect participle of the verb fungor ‎(“I perform, execute”).
Surface analysis: fūnct(us) ‎(“performed”, “executed”) +‎ -iō ‎(“-tion”, nominal derivational suffix).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfuːnk.ti.oː/, [ˈfuːŋk.ti.oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfunk.t͡si.o/, [ˈfuŋk.t͡si.o]

NounEdit

fūnctiō f ‎(genitive fūnctiōnis); third declension

1. performance, execution (of a task)
2. (mathematics) function

InflectionEdit

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fūnctiō	fūnctiōnēs
genitive	fūnctiōnis	fūnctiōnum
dative	fūnctiōnī	fūnctiōnibus
accusative	fūnctiōnem	fūnctiōnēs
ablative	fūnctiōne	fūnctiōnibus
vocative	fūnctiō	fūnctiōnēs

DescendantsEdit

Afrikaans: funksie Catalan: funció Czech: funkce Danish: funktion Dutch: functie English: function

Esperanto: funkcio Estonian: funktsioon Finnish: funktio French: fonction German: Funktion Italian: funzione

Latvian: funkcija Lithuanian: funkcija Norwegian: funksjon Occitan: foncion Polish: funkcja Portuguese: função

Romanian: funcție, funcțiune Russian: функция ‎(funkcija) Serbo-Croatian: funkcija (функција) Spanish: función, funcción Swedish: funktion

ReferencesEdit

• functio in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• functio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FUNCTIO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• functio in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.