functio

Contents

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
• Indonesian: fungsi
• Italian: funzione
• Latvian: funkcija
• Lithuanian: funkcija
• Norwegian: funksjon
• Occitan: foncion
• Polish: funkcja
• Portuguese: função
• Romanian: funcție, funcțiune
• Russian: фу́нкция (fúnkcija)
• Serbo-Croatian: fùnkcija (фу̀нкција)
• Spanish: función, funcción
• Swedish: funktion

ReferencesEdit

• functio in Charlton T. Lewis and 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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette