funesto

See also: funestò

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin funestus.

Adjective

funesto (feminine funesta, masculine plural funesti, feminine plural funeste)

1. fatal
2. disastrous
3. gloomy, dismal

Derived terms

• funestamente

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

funesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of funestare

Further reading

• funesto in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• funesto in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• funesto in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• funesto in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• funèsto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• funèsto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From fūnestus without a suffix.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fuːˈnes.toː/, [fuːˈnɛs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fuˈnes.to/, [fuˈnɛst̪o]

Verb

fūnestō (present infinitive fūnestāre, perfect active fūnestāvī, supine fūnestātum); first conjugation

1. (rare) to bring to the grave
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64.200–201:

     Sed quālī sōlam Thēseus mē mente relīquit,
     tālī mente, deae, fūnestet sēque suōsque.

     But may Theseus, with the same mind as he deserted me,
     bring to the grave, goddesses, himself and his kind.

   • a. 440 CE, Salvian, Ad ecclesiam 3.66 in Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (volume VIII), Franz Pauly, Vienna (1883), page 291, lines 16–18:

     Et mīrum est, quod hoc ipsum sinis, ut iam fūnestātō tē tua habeat, et nōn iam exportātō atque tumulātō.

     And it's a wonder that you even allow that he inherits your things with you interred, and not conveyed away or entombed already.

2. to pollute, disgrace or dishonour (especially with murder)

Conjugation

Conjugation of fūnestō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fūnestō	fūnestās	fūnestat	fūnestāmus	fūnestātis	fūnestant
	imperfect	fūnestābam	fūnestābās	fūnestābat	fūnestābāmus	fūnestābātis	fūnestābant
	future	fūnestābō	fūnestābis	fūnestābit	fūnestābimus	fūnestābitis	fūnestābunt
	perfect	fūnestāvī	fūnestāvistī	fūnestāvit	fūnestāvimus	fūnestāvistis	fūnestāvērunt, fūnestāvēre
	pluperfect	fūnestāveram	fūnestāverās	fūnestāverat	fūnestāverāmus	fūnestāverātis	fūnestāverant
	future perfect	fūnestāverō	fūnestāveris	fūnestāverit	fūnestāverimus	fūnestāveritis	fūnestāverint
passive	present	fūnestor	fūnestāris, fūnestāre	fūnestātur	fūnestāmur	fūnestāminī	fūnestantur
	imperfect	fūnestābar	fūnestābāris, fūnestābāre	fūnestābātur	fūnestābāmur	fūnestābāminī	fūnestābantur
	future	fūnestābor	fūnestāberis, fūnestābere	fūnestābitur	fūnestābimur	fūnestābiminī	fūnestābuntur
	perfect	fūnestātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	fūnestātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	fūnestātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	fūnestem	fūnestēs	fūnestet	fūnestēmus	fūnestētis	fūnestent
	imperfect	fūnestārem	fūnestārēs	fūnestāret	fūnestārēmus	fūnestārētis	fūnestārent
	perfect	fūnestāverim	fūnestāverīs	fūnestāverit	fūnestāverīmus	fūnestāverītis	fūnestāverint
	pluperfect	fūnestāvissem	fūnestāvissēs	fūnestāvisset	fūnestāvissēmus	fūnestāvissētis	fūnestāvissent
passive	present	fūnester	fūnestēris, fūnestēre	fūnestētur	fūnestēmur	fūnestēminī	fūnestentur
	imperfect	fūnestārer	fūnestārēris, fūnestārēre	fūnestārētur	fūnestārēmur	fūnestārēminī	fūnestārentur
	perfect	fūnestātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	fūnestātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	fūnestā	—	—	fūnestāte	—
	future	—	fūnestātō	fūnestātō	—	fūnestātōte	fūnestantō
passive	present	—	fūnestāre	—	—	fūnestāminī	—
	future	—	fūnestātor	fūnestātor	—	—	fūnestantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		fūnestāre	fūnestāvisse	fūnestātūrum esse	fūnestārī	fūnestātum esse	fūnestātum īrī
participles		fūnestāns	—	fūnestātūrus	—	fūnestātus	fūnestandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		fūnestandī	fūnestandō	fūnestandum	fūnestandō	fūnestātum	fūnestātū

Adjective

fūnestō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fūnestus

References

• “funesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “funesto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• funesto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fūnestō” in volume VI 1, column 1583, line 76 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “fūnestō” on page 821/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin funestus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fuˈnɛs.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fuˈnɛs.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /fuˈnɛʃ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /fuˈnɛs.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fuˈnɛʃ.tu/

• Hyphenation: fu‧nes‧to

Adjective

funesto (feminine funesta, masculine plural funestos, feminine plural funestas)

1. fatal
2. gloomy, dismal

Derived terms

• funestamente

Further reading

• “funesto”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “funesto”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “funesto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “funesto”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “funesto”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “funesto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin funestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuˈnesto/ [fuˈnes.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -esto
• Syllabification: fu‧nes‧to

Adjective

funesto (feminine funesta, masculine plural funestos, feminine plural funestas)

1. fateful
2. dismal
3. baleful

Derived terms

• funestamente

 

Further reading

• “funesto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28