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function (n.)
1530s, from M.Fr.
fonction
, from O.Fr.
function
, from L.
functio
(gen.
functionis
) "performance, execution," from
functus
, pp. of
fungi
"perform, execute, discharge." Use in mathematics probably begun by Leibnitz (1692).