Dictionary formcunctus, cuncta, cunctum
Translation
all, the whole, entire
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tremuit.
The whole earth trembled violently.
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All the citizens came into the forum.
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He beat all the enemy in a single battle.
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Death comes to all men.
perdidit.
He lost all his goods.
Cunctus, cuncta, cunctum, first and second declension. It overlaps omnis without being a synonym: cunctus is "all taken together, the whole body of them", where omnis distributes, "every one of them". The ancient grammarians derived it from coniunctus, "joined together", and true or not that is a serviceable hook for the difference.
Two habits worth knowing. It is far commoner in the plural than the singular, and it belongs to written, elevated Latin, so it turns up thickly in historians and liturgy and hardly at all in comedy. Do not confuse it with the unrelated verb cunctor, "to hesitate, delay", which gave Fabius Cunctator his nickname; nothing in Romance or English descends from the adjective.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 4, lesson 3: cunctus, iuvenis, patria and 7 more words.