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{{Lewis

|lshtext=<b>fūnestus</b>: a, um, adj. [[funus]].<br /><b>I</b> Act., causing [[death]], [[destruction]], or [[calamity]]; causing [[grief]]; [[deadly]], [[fatal]], [[destructive]], [[calamitous]], [[mournful]], [[dismal]] ([[class]].; syn.: [[nefarius]], [[perniciosus]]; [[fatalis]], [[fatifer]]): ad ejus (C. Verris) funestam securem servati, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 47, § 123; cf.: deorum templis [[atque]] delubris funestos ac nefarios ignes inferre, id. Cat. 3, 9, 22: [[arma]], Ov. F. 1, 521: [[venenum]], id. M. 3, 49: [[morsus]], id. ib. 11, 373: [[munus]], id. ib. 2, 88: [[taxus]], id. ib. 4, 432; cf. [[taeda]], Verg. A. 7, 322: [[scelus]], Phaedr. 3, 10, 50.—Comp.: funestior [[dies]] [[Alliensis]] pugnae, [[quam]] urbis captae, Cic. Att. 9, 5, 2.—Sup.: Caligula sceleratissimus ac funestissimus, Eutr. 7, 12.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With dat.: aquilam argenteam, [[quam]] [[tibi]] perniciosam et funestam futuram [[confido]], Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 24: o diem illum funestum senatui bonisque omnibus! id. Sest. 12, 27; cf.: nox nobis, id. Fl. 41, 103: [[victoria]] orbi terrarum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 3.—<br /><b>II</b> Neutr., [[filled]] [[with]] [[misfortune]] or [[grief]], [[fatal]], [[mournful]], [[sad]] ([[class]].; syn.: [[infaustus]], [[infelix]], etc.): agros funestos reddere, Lucr. 6, 1139: capilli, Ov. F. 6, 493: utque [[manus]] funestas arceat [[aris]], i. e. [[polluted]] [[with]] [[blood]], id. M. 11, 584: [[familia]], in [[mourning]], Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 55; Liv. 2, 8, 8; 2, 47, 10: [[adeo]] ut annales [[velut]] funesti [[nihil]] [[praeter]] nomina consulum suggerant, as if [[they]] were [[lists]] of the [[dead]], id. 4, 20, 9; cf. epistolae, announcing [[misfortune]] or [[sad]] [[tidings]], Vell. 2, 117, 1: funestior advolat [[alter]] Nuntius, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 474; cf.: nocturna [[volucris]] funesta [[querela]], Prop. 2, 20 (3, 13), 5; [[hence]] also: [[omen]], id. 2, 28, 38 (3, 25, 4 M.): [[littera]], denoting [[death]], [[mourning]], Ov. M. 10, 216: [[manus]], [[mourning]] (of a dowager), id. ib. 11, 585: funestum est a forti [[atque]] [[honesto]] viro jugulari, funestius ab eo, cujus vox, etc., Cic. Quint. 31, 95.

{{Georges

|georg=fūnestus, a, um, PAdi. ([[funus]]), I) Leichen-, [[Tote]] betreffend, [[durch]] eine [[Leiche]] verunreinigt, -in [[Trauer]] versetzt, Leichen-, [[Trauer]]-, trauervoll, [[traurig]], [[vestis]], Catull.: [[littera]], der B. der Totenklage (αι αι), Ov.: agros funestos reddere, [[durch]] Leichen [[besudeln]], Lucr.: [[familia]] f., [[wegen]] eines Todesfalles in [[Trauer]] versetzt, Liv.: [[ebenso]] [[domus]] f., Ov. – [[adeo]] ut [[quidam]] annales, [[velut]] funesti ([[als]] wären es [[nur]] [[Totenregister]]), [[nihil]] [[praeter]] nomina consulum suggerant, Liv. – II) im weitern Sinne: a) [[Unheil]] verkündend od. bringend, [[Verderben]] bringend, [[mit]] [[Unheil]] geschwängert, unheilvoll, trauervoll ([[traurig]]), [[verderblich]], [[omen]], Prop.: [[volucris]], Prop.: [[epistula]], Vell.: [[fax]], Cic.: [[tribunatus]], Cic.: [[victoria]] f. orbi terrarum, Planc. in Cic. ep.: [[dies]] funestior, Cic. ad Att. 9, 5, 2: [[bellum]] funestissimum, Eutr. 5, 9: f. [[rei]] publicae (Dat) [[pestis]] (v. [[einer]] Pers.), Cic.: funestum und funestius est m. Infin. Praes. Pass., Cic. Quinct. 95. – b) [[todbringend]], [[tödlich]], [[manus]], Ov.: [[securis]], Cic.: [[morsus]], Ov.: [[veternus]], Hor.: v. Pers., mordsüchtig, blutdürstig, [[Caligula]] sceleratissimus et funestissimus, Eutr. 7, 12.

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