funesto

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

From Latin funestus.

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

1. fatal
2. disastrous
3. gloomy, dismal

• funestamente

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

funesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of funestare

• 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

From fūnestus without a suffix.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fuːˈnɛs.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fuˈnɛs.t̪o]

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)

fūnestō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fūnestus

• “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)

Learned borrowing from Latin funestus.

• Hyphenation: fu‧nes‧to

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

1. fatal
2. gloomy, dismal

• funestamente

• “funesto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “funesto”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “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, 2003–2025
• “funesto”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “funesto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin funestus.

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

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

1. fateful
2. dismal
3. baleful

• “funesto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024