defunctus

Perfect active (or passive, with active meaning) participle of dēfungor (“have done with, perform, finish”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈfuːnk.tus/, [d̪eːˈfuːŋkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈfunk.tus/, [d̪eˈfuŋkt̪us]

dēfūnctus (feminine dēfūncta, neuter dēfūnctum); first/second-declension participle

1. done with, performed, finished, having finished

   Synonyms: absolutus, complētus, perfectus, factus, effectus

   Antonyms: incohatus, infectus, imperfectus

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.4:

     Velut defuncti regis imperio

     So they [wanted to] perform the king’s order

2. dead, deceased

   Synonyms: mortuus, exanimis

   Antonym: vīvus

3. defunct

First/second-declension adjective.

• “defunctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “defunctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• defunctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a man who has held every office (up to the consulship): vir defunctus honoribus