perfungor Latin · revision 33079

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *bʰu-n-g-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɛrˈfʊŋ.ɡɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [perˈfuŋ.ɡor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''perfungor''' (present infinitive perfungī, perfect active perfūnctus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|fungor|t2=to perform, discharge]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fungor]] to [[itc-pro|*fung-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰu-n-g-|t=to be of use, be used]], comparing [[sa|भुञ्जते|tr=bhuñjaté|t=they benefit, enjoy]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citations are Cicero's, as in ''De oratore'' of an old man who has discharged high offices and public duties.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to carry through or discharge one's part, mostly with an ablative and occasionally with an accusative: Cicero writes of performing a duty of necessity and heavy labour, and of a man who has held the highest offices and borne the greatest toils.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the perfect, often with ''iam'', it means to have done with something, to have got through it: Cicero has Hercules, his labours already done.^(OLD 2012) From that comes the sense of enduring or going through something.^(Wiktionary) Stelten gives "fulfil, perform, discharge" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of public duties discharged and of Hercules' labours done.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To carry through, [[m|en|perform]], [[m|en|discharge]] (a duty or office).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(perfect)'' To have finished with, be done with; to go through, [[m|en|endure]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[perfunctiō]]

+ * [[perfūnctōrius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fungor]]

+ * [[dēfungor]]

+ * [[perfūnctōriē]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}