funeste

English

Adjective

funeste (comparative more funeste, superlative most funeste)

1. Alternative form of funest
   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     […] her father had dropped hints about his history and belongings which surrounded him in her eyes with a sort of chill and dismal halo. There was something funeste and mysterious even in his beauty; and her spirits faltered and sank in his presence.

Anagrams

• Fuentes

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.nɛst/

Adjective

funeste (plural funestes)

1. baneful, disastrous (causing disaster)
2. fatal; deadly

Derived terms

• funestement

Further reading

• “funeste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuˈnɛ.ste/
• Rhymes: -ɛste
• Hyphenation: fu‧nè‧ste

Adjective

funeste

1. feminine plural of funesto

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fuːˈnes.te/, [fuːˈnɛs̠t̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fuˈnes.te/, [fuˈnɛst̪e]

Adjective

fūneste

1. vocative masculine singular of fūnestus