fundament

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• foundament (obsolete )

Inherited from Middle English fundament , modification of foundement , from Old French fondement , from Latin fundāmentum ("foundation"), from fundō ("to lay the bottom, to found"). Doublet of fondamento .

• (Received Pronunciation , General American ) IPA ^(key): /ˈfʌn.də.mənt/
• Audio (Southern England ): (file)
• (Australia ) IPA ^(key): /ˈfan.də.mənt/
• Hyphenation: fun‧da‧ment

fundament (plural fundaments )

1. Foundation.
2. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
   • 1703, Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized:

     It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.

   • 1861, Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies., page 119

     ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck [...]

   • 1864, Alfred Fennings, Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well, page 9:

     Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament, beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.

   • 2008, Eric Summers, Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West, page 38:

     I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament.

3. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

• fundamental

• → Welsh: ffwndament

From Latin fundāmentum .

fundament n (singular definite fundamentet , plural indefinite fundamenter )

1. foundation (of a house etc.)

   Synonym: sokkel

2. foundation, basis

   Synonyms: basis , grundlag

• fundamental
• fundamentere
• betonfundament

• grundsten
• syldsten

• "fundament" in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch fondament , from Old French fundement , fondement , from Latin fundāmentum ("foundation"), from fundō ("to lay the bottom, to found").

• IPA ^(key): /ˌfʏn.daːˌmɛnt/
• Audio: (file)
• Hyphenation: fun‧da‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

fundament n (plural fundamenten , diminutive fundamentje  n)

1. basis
2. foundation, basis

   Synonym: fundering

• fundamenteel

• Negerhollands: fondament
• → Caribbean Javanese: pandhemèn
• → Indonesian: fundamen
• → Papiamentu: fondement

• foundament
• fondament , fowndament (Late Middle English )

Either a modification of earlier and more common foundement after Latin fundāmentum or less likely, a reborrowing from it; compare Anglo-Norman fundament . First attested before 1398.

• IPA ^(key): /ˌfundaˈmɛnt/, /ˈfundaˌmɛnt/
• IPA ^(key): /ˌfuːndaˈmɛnt/, /ˈfuːndaˌmɛnt/ (influenced by founden or foundement )

fundament (plural fundamentes )

1. The base; the lowest or foundational portion of something:

   Synonym: foundement

   1. The foundation or understructure of a building.

      Synonyms: fundacioun , foundement

   2. (anatomy ) The anus or rectum.

      Synonym: foundement

   3. (astronomy , rare ) A fixed celestial object.
2. (figuratively ) The basis or foundation for something:

   Synonyms: fundacioun , foundement

3. (figuratively ) The source or cause of something.

   Synonym: foundement

4. (rare ) The ground (that something or someone stands on)

   Synonym: foundement

• English: fundament , foundament (obsolete ) (obsolete foundament )
  • → Welsh: ffwndament
• Middle Scots: fundament

• "fǒundement, n.", in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• "fundament, n.", in OED Online Paid subscription required ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Norri, Juhani, compiler (2016), "fundament", in Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550, part I & II, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 449.

From Latin fundāmentum .

fundament n (definite singular fundamentet , indefinite plural fundament or fundamenter , definite plural fundamenta or fundamentene )

1. a foundation

• fundamental

• "fundament" in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin fundāmentum .

fundament n (definite singular fundamentet , indefinite plural fundament, definite plural fundamenta )

1. a foundation

• fundamental

• "fundament" in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• fudament (Lasovia )

Learned borrowing from Latin fundāmentum .

• IPA ^(key): /funˈda.mɛnt/
• Audio: (file)
• Rhymes: -amɛnt
• Syllabification: fun‧da‧ment

fundament m inan

1. (architecture ) foundation (lowest and supporting part or member of a wall)
2. (figurative ) base, basis, foundation

   Synonyms: baza , podstawa

• "fundament", in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• "fundament", in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French fondement . By surface analysis, funda + -ment .

fundament n (plural fundamente )

1. foundation

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