## Meanings
1. What something is used for or what it does.
2. To work or operate as intended.
3. A formal social event or ceremony.
4. A mathematical relation in which one value depends on another.

## Examples
- The function of an auger is to bore holes.
- The new heating system functions perfectly.
- The hotel is hosting a function for all the staff next week.
- Height is a function of age.

## Derived Forms
- afunction
- bifunction
- bifunctional
- biofunction
- cofunction
- cryptofunction
- difunctional
- disfunction
- dysfunction
- endofunction
- functional
- functionalism

## Related Forms
- dysfunction
- dysfunctional
- functional
- functor
- fungible

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *bʰewg-
- Root: function
- Root: fonction
- Root: functiō

## Etymology
From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functiō (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”).

## AI Etymology
Function comes from Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functiō (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”). In current use, the main senses are “What something is used for or what it does” and “To work or operate as intended”.

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