fondo

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fondo

1. neuter of fondu

Borrowed from Spanish fondo , from Latin fundus .

• IPA ^(key): (Northern ) [ˈfun.du]
• IPA ^(key): (Balearic , Valencia , Northwestern ) [ˈfon.do]
• IPA ^(key): (Central ) [ˈfon.du]
• Hyphenation: fon‧do

fondo (feminine fonda , masculine plural fondos , feminine plural fondes )

1. deep

   Synonym: profund

fondo

1. deeply

   Synonym: profundament

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), "fondo", in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• "fondo" in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• "fondo", in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA ^(key): /ˈfondo/
• Audio: (file)
• Rhymes: -ondo
• Syllabification: fon‧do

fondo (accusative singular fondon , plural fondoj , accusative plural fondojn )

1. foundation, founding

From Old Galician-Portuguese fondo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria ), from Latin fundus ("deep").

• IPA ^(key): /ˈfondo/ [ˈfon̪.d̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ondo
• Hyphenation: fon‧do

fondo (feminine fonda , masculine plural fondos , feminine plural fondas )

1. deep
2. intense

   Synonym: intenso

fondo m (plural fondos )

1. bottom
2. foot (of a mountain, hill)
3. (in the plural ) capital

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), "fondo", in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), "fondo", in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), "fondo", in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), "fondo", in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), "fondo", in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA ^(key): /ˈfon.do/
• Rhymes: -ondo
• Hyphenation: fón‧do

From Latin fundus ("deep").

fondo (feminine fonda , masculine plural fondi , feminine plural fonde )

1. deep

   Synonym: profondo

fondo m (plural fondi )

1. bottom
2. fund
3. background
4. estate, farm
5. (athletics ) cross-country running
6. seat (of trousers)
7. (food) stock, bone broth

• → Ottoman Turkish: فوندو (fondo)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fondo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fondare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fondo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fondere

• "fondo", in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• "fondo" in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• "fondo" in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• "fondo" in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• "fóndo" in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Inherited from Old Spanish , from Latin fundus

PIE word
*bhudhmḗn

The preservation of the initial older 'f' in this word may be to distinguish it from the doublet hondo , which became an adjective and continued its phonetic evolution as expected. Also the doublet of fundo , a later borrowing.

• IPA ^(key): /ˈfondo/ [ˈfõn̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -ondo
• Syllabification: fon‧do

fondo m (plural fondos )

1. bottom
2. back

   al fondo ― at the back

3. fund, funding
4. ground (bottom of a body of water)
5. ground, basis, foundation
6. opposite side or extreme (of a house, store, room, corridor, street, field, tubing, piping, etc.), respect to the talker, entrance or beginning
7. dip (exercise)

• → Catalan: fondo
• → Cebuano: pundo
• → Hiligaynon: pondo
• → Tagalog: pondo

• "fondo", in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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