funditus

Latin

Etymology

From fundus (“bottom, ground, foundation”) +‎ -tus.

Adverb

funditus (not comparable)

  1. from the very bottom
  2. utterly, entirely, totally, completely
    • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 243–244:
      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.

References

  • “funditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “funditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “funditus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to eradicate vice: vitia exstirpare et funditus tollere
    • to absolutely annihilate superstition: superstitionem funditus tollere
    • to completely overthrow the government, the state: rem publicam funditus evertere
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