fundo

fundo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fundar

From Latin fundus. Doublet of fono.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfundo/

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• Rhymes: -undo
• Hyphenation: fun‧do

fundo (accusative singular fundon, plural fundoj, accusative plural fundojn)

1. bottom

• alfundigi (“to sink (transitive)”)
• alfundiĝi (“to sink (intransitive)”)
• senfunda (“bottomless”)

fundo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fundir

fundo (plural fundos)

1. base, bottom

fundo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふんど

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfʊn.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfun̪.d̪o]

From Proto-Italic *hundō or possibly *hʷundō (with fūsus for *fussus after fūdī), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰu-né-d(H)-ti, from the root *ǵʰew-d(H)- (“to pour”), extended from *ǵʰew-.

The change h- > f- is irregular (before -u-? Weiss, Outline, p. 77f.) and could be explained by a variant *hʷundō. Cognates include Ancient Greek χέω (khéō) and Old English ġēotan. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

fundō (present infinitive fundere, perfect active fūdī, supine fūsum); third conjugation, third person-only in the passive

1. (transitive) to pour out, shed

   Synonyms: effundō, cōnfundō, diffundō, dēfundō, differō, indūcō, sternō, dissipō

2. (military) to overthrow, overcome, rout, vanquish an enemy, rout, scatter

   Synonyms: conquestō, dēvincō, vincō, superō, domō, prōflīgō, caedō, obruō, prōsternō, sternō, opprimō, ēvincō, exsuperō, pellō, impellō, subiciō, premō, subigō, dissipō

3. to throw or cast to the ground, prostrate

   Synonyms: prōsternō, sternō, prōflīgō, ruō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.192–193:

     nec prius absistit quam septem ingentia victor
     corpora fundat humī et numerum cum nāvibus aequet.

     Nor does it stop before [Aeneas], [as] victor, throws seven huge bodies to the ground, and equals the number with his ships.
     (The deer hunt shows Aeneas’s potential to be a military leader; note Virgil’s use of the present anticipatory subjunctive – “fundat” and “aequet” – to express purposeful actions.)

4. (transitive) to found, make by smelting
5. (transitive, figuratively) to moisten, wet
6. (transitive) to extend, spread out

   Synonym: sternō

7. (transitive) to utter

• “fundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fundo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• fundo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the earth brings forth fruit abundantly: terra fundit fruges
    
  • to write poetry with facility: carmina , versus fundere (De Or. 3. 50)
    
  • property in land; real property: fundi
    
  • to rout the enemy's forces: fundere hostium copias
    
  • to utterly rout the enemy: caedere et fundere hostem
    
  • to utterly rout the enemy: fundere et fugare hostem
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fŭndere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 863

From fundus (“bottom, lowest point”).

fundō (present infinitive fundāre, perfect active fundāvī, supine fundātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to found, establish, lay the foundation

   Synonyms: exaedificō, inaedificō, aedificō, condō, struō, cōnstruō, compōnō, cōnstituō, statuō, mōlior

2. (transitive, figuratively) to secure, make firm

• fundātus

fundō

1. dative/ablative singular of fundus

• “fundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fundo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fundo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fŭndare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 863

• Rhymes: -ũdu

From Old Galician-Portuguese fundo, fondo, from Latin fundus (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.

fundo (feminine funda, masculine plural fundos, feminine plural fundas)

1. deep (having its bottom far down)

   Synonym: profundo

   Antonyms: raso, superficial

fundo m (plural fundos)

1. bottom

   Antonyms: cume, superfície, topo

2. background (a part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject)
3. fund
4. (finance, insurance) capital (money and wealth)
5. (sports) long-distance

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fundo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fundar

   fundo uma instituição ― I am founding an institution

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fundo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fundir

   fundo ouro ― I am smelting gold

• “fundo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “fundo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈfundo/ [ˈfũn̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -undo
• Syllabification: fun‧do

Borrowed from Latin fundus. Doublet of fondo.

fundo m (plural fundos)

1. country estate, farm

   Synonym: finca

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 197:

     La primitiva dueña de este fundo, una señora viuda de mucha virtud, hermosura y dinero, buscando la manera unir ambas secciones de su propiedad, pactó con el Diablo la construcción del puente dicho.

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fundo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fundar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fundo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fundir

• “fundo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuⁿ.dɔ/

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fundo class V (plural mafundo class VI)

1. a knot (looping of string)
2. a joint of the body
3. a cluster (group or bunch of things)