funeste

English

Adjective

funeste (comparative more funeste, superlative most funeste)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Fuentes

French

Etymology

From Latin fūnestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.nɛst/

Adjective

funeste (plural funestes)

1. baneful, disastrous (causing disaster)
2. fatal; deadly

Derived terms

• funestement

 

Further reading

• “funeste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuˈnɛ.ste/
• Rhymes: -ɛste
• Hyphenation: fu‧nè‧ste

Adjective

funeste

1. feminine plural of funesto

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fuːˈnes.te/, [fuːˈnɛs̠t̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fuˈnes.te/, [fuˈnɛst̪e]

Adjective

fūneste

1. vocative masculine singular of fūnestus