Etymology

defunctive

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Today it means: funereal or deathly Full definition →

Latin defunctivus
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromdefunctivus
  2. English todaydefunctive

From Latin defunctivus, from dēfūnctiō (“execution, performance, death”), from dēfungor (“to finish, perform, die”).

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