functio
Latin
Etymology
Action noun of the verb fungor (“I perform, execute”).
Derived from root fug- ("perform", "execute") (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”)) with nasal infix (-n-) irregularly borrowed from present tense forms (fung-) + -tiō (“nominal derivational suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfuːnk.ti.oː/, [ˈfuːŋkt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfunk.t͡si.o/, [ˈfuŋkt̪͡s̪io]
Noun
fūnctiō f (genitive fūnctiōnis); third declension
- performance, execution (of a task)
- (mathematics) function
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fūnctiō | fūnctiōnēs |
| Genitive | fūnctiōnis | fūnctiōnum |
| Dative | fūnctiōnī | fūnctiōnibus |
| Accusative | fūnctiōnem | fūnctiōnēs |
| Ablative | fūnctiōne | fūnctiōnibus |
| Vocative | fūnctiō | fūnctiōnēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: funció
- → Czech: funkce
- → Danish: funktion
- → Dutch: functie (see there for further descendants)
- → 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: фу́нкция (fúnkcija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: fùnkcija (фу̀нкција)
- Sicilian: funziuni
- Spanish: función, funcción
- → Swedish: funktion
References
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- functio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette