Functio, ônis, f. g. Verbale. Cic. Functio quædam vel animi, vel corporis, grauioris operis & muneris. The exercise of a waightle office or charge: an office or charge that one hath to doe either in bodie or minde.Muneris functio.Cic.The executing of.Recipere functionem in suo genere dicuntur res quædam. Paulus. When a man may render or paye either the same kinde of thing, or the value of it, and not the very same particular thing that he receined.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
functĭo, ōnis, f. [fungor], a performing, executing, discharging; a performance, execution.I. In gen. (Ciceron., but very rare): labor est functio quaedam vel animi vel corporis gravioris operis et muneris, Cic. Tusc. 2, 15, 35: ut iis jucundior esset muneris illius functio, id. Verr. 2, 3, 6, 15.— B.Transf., of things: functionem recipere per solutionem, i. e.