Latin

Alternative forms

• moenus

Noun

mūnus n ‎(genitive mūneris); third declension

1. a service, office, employment
2. a burden, duty, obligation
3. a service, favor
4. a spectacle, public show
5. a gift

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Portuguese: múnus

References

• munus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• munus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• MUNUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “munus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to give a gladiatorial show: munus gladiatorium edere, dare (or simply munus edere, dare)
    
  • to live a perfect life: virtutis perfectae perfecto munere fungi (Tusc. 1. 45. 109)
    
  • banished from public life: rei publicae muneribus orbatus
    
  • to perform official duties: munus administrare, gerere
    
  • to perform official duties: munere fungi, muneri praeesse
    
  • to appoint some one to an office: muneri aliquem praeficere, praeponere
    
  • to fulfil the duties of one's position: munus explere, sustinere
    
  • to remove a person from his office: abrogare alicui munus (Verr. 2. 57)
    
  • a man who has held many offices: honoribus ac reipublicae muneribus perfunctus (De Or. 1. 45)
    
• munus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• munus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin