funeste
English
Adjective
funeste (comparative more funeste, superlative most funeste)
- Alternative form of funest.
- 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Being a Short History of the Great Battle of Belmont, That Lasted for So Many Days, wherein the Belligerents Showed So Much Constancy and Valour, and Sometimes One Side and Sometimes t’Other Was Victorious”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 297:
- […] her father had dropped hints about his history and belongings which surrounded him in her eyes with a sort of chill and supernatural halo. There was something funeste and mysterious even in his beauty; and his spirits faltered and sank in his presence.
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fy.nɛst/
Adjective
funeste (plural funestes)
- baneful, disastrous (causing disaster)
- fatal; deadly
Derived terms
Further reading
- “funeste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fuˈnɛs.te/
- Rhymes: -ɛste
- Hyphenation: fu‧nè‧ste
Adjective
funeste
- feminine plural of funesto
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fuːˈnɛs.tɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fuˈnɛs.t̪e]
Adjective
fūneste
- vocative masculine singular of fūnestus