functio

Latin

Etymology

From fungor (“to perform, execute”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfuːŋk.ti.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuŋk.t̪͡s̪i.o]

Noun

fūnctiō f (genitive fūnctiōnis); third declension

performance, execution (of a task)
(mathematics) function

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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.