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 and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• functio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “functio”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “functio” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)