adverb
funditus
funditus (not comparable)
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparablefrom the very bottom
- not comparableutterly, entirely, totally, completely
PAMPHILUS: Itane obstinātē operam dat ut mē ā Glyceriō miserum abstrahat? / Quod sī fit pereō funditus.
PAMPHILUS: Is he so determinedly making the effort to drag me in my misery away from Glycerium? / Which, if that happens, I’m utterly ruined.166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 243–244
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- rem publicam funditus evertere
- to completely overthrow the government, the state.
- superstitionem funditus tollere
- to absolutely annihilate superstition.
- vitia exstirpare et funditus tollere
- to eradicate vice.
fundĭtus, adv. fundus,
I. from the very bottom, from the foundation (syn.: a fundamento, ab radicibus, radicitus, penitus; freq. and class.).
I. Lit.:
monumentum P. Scipionis funditus delevit ac sustulit, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 36, § 79; cf.: Carthaginem et Numantiam funditus sustulerunt, id. Off. 1, 11, 35; Vell. 1, 12, 5: destructum templum, Suet. Vesp. 9: perire, Hor. C. 1, 16, 20: evellere, by the roots, Phaedr. 2, 2, 10.— B. Trop., utterly, entirely, totally, completely:
belli magnos commovit funditus aestus, Lucr. 5, 1435: quae domus tam stabilis, quae tam firma civitas est, quae non odiis et discidiis funditus possit everti? Cic. Lael. 7, 23; cf.: praecepta, quae probas, funditus evertunt amicitias, id. Fin. 2, 25, 80: amicitias funditus tollere e vita, id. Lael. 13, 48; id. N. D. 1, 42, 118; 1, 41, 115: tollere veritatem et fidem, id. Or. 62, 209: eicere, id. Tusc. 1, 18, 42; 5, 33, 93: abolitae leges et versae funditus, Tac. A. 3, 36: perdidisti me sodalem funditus, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 31; id. Most. 3, 1, 154; cf.: Lacedaemonios funditus vicit, Cic. Inv. 1, 33, 55; Verg. A. 11, 413; Enn. ap. Fest. p. 333 Müll. (Ann. v. 132 Vahl.): ne res redeant ad nilum funditus omnes, Lucr. 1, 673: curare nomen, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 239 P. (Ann. v. 163 Vahl.): perspicere omnes res gestas, Lucr. 1, 478: earum rerum funditus esse expertem, Cic. de Or. 3, 50, 195: ne spondeus quidem funditus est repudiandus, id. Or. 64, 216: funditus aliquid pessum dare, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 128.—II. Transf., at the bottom, below (only ante- and post-class., and very rare):
subsedit funditus, ut faex, Lucr. 5, 497; Spart. Hadr. 12 fin.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
funditus adv.
fundus, from the bottom, from the foundation : monumentum delevit: Carthaginem sustulerunt: evellere, by the roots , Ph.—Fig., utterly, entirely, totally, completely : discidiis everti: amicitias tollere e vitā: dictaturam ex re p. tollere: occidimus, V.: perire, H.: virgo concepit flammam, profoundly , Ct.
Origins
From fundus (“bottom, ground, foundation”) + -tus.