fundamentum
Latin
Etymology
fundō + -mentum
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fun.daːˈmen.tum/, [fʊn̪d̪äːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fun.daˈmen.tum/, [fun̪d̪äˈmɛn̪t̪um]
Noun
fundāmentum n (genitive fundāmentī); second declension
- foundation
- Synonym: fundāmen
- beginning
- basis
- Synonyms: basis, crepīdō
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fundāmentum | fundāmenta |
| Genitive | fundāmentī | fundāmentōrum |
| Dative | fundāmentō | fundāmentīs |
| Accusative | fundāmentum | fundāmenta |
| Ablative | fundāmentō | fundāmentīs |
| Vocative | fundāmentum | fundāmenta |
Related terms
- fundāmen
- fundus
Descendants
- Catalan: fonament
- Old French: fondement, fundement
- French: fondement
- → Romanian: fundament
- → Middle Dutch: fondament
- Dutch: fundament (see there for further descendants)
- → English: fundament
- → Welsh: ffwndament
- French: fondement
- Italian: fondamento
- → English: fondamento
- Old Portuguese: fondamento
- Galician: fundamento
- Portuguese: fundamento
- Spanish: fundamento
- Bulgarian: фундамент (fundament)
- Danish: fundament
- Norwegian: fundament (Bokmål), fundament (Nynorsk)
- Old High German: fundament
- Middle High German: fundament
- German: Fundament
- Luxembourgish: Fundament
- Middle High German: fundament
- Old Irish: fundamint
- Irish: fundaimint, fuaimint
- Polish: fundament
- Russian: фундамент (fundament)
- Serbo-Croatian: фундамент / fundament
- Swedish: fundament
References
- “fundamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fundamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fundamentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fundamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lay the foundations: fundamenta iacere, agere
- to lay the foundations: fundamenta iacere, agere