fundo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative offundar

FromLatinfundus.Doublet offono.

• IPA^(key):/ˈfundo/

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• Rhymes:-undo
• Hyphenation: fun‧do

fundo (accusative singularfundon,pluralfundoj,accusative pluralfundojn)

1. bottom

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

fundo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative offundir

fundo (pluralfundos)

1. base,bottom

fundo

1. Rōmaji transcription ofふんど

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈfun.doː/,[ˈfʊn̪d̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈfun.do/,[ˈfun̪d̪o]

FromProto-Italic*hundō or possibly*hʷundō (withfūsus for*fussus afterfūdī), fromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰu-né-d(H)-ti, from the root*ǵʰew-d(H)-(“to pour”), extended from*ǵʰew-.

The changeh- >f- is irregular (before -u-? Weiss, Outline, p. 77f.) and could be explained by a variant*hʷundō. Cognates includeAncient Greekχέω(khéō) andOld Englishġēotan.(Canthis⁽⁺⁾ etymology besourced?)

fundō (present infinitivefundere,perfect activefūdī,supinefūsum);third conjugation,third person-only in thepassive

1. (transitive) topour out,shed

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

2. (military) tooverthrow,overcome,rout,vanquish anenemy,rout,scatter

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

3. tothrow orcast to theground,prostrate

   Synonyms:prōsternō,sternō,prōflīgō,ruō

   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid1.192–193:

     nec prius absistit quam septem ingentia victor
     corporafundat 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) tofound, make bysmelting
5. (transitive,figuratively) tomoisten,wet
6. (transitive) toextend,spread out

   Synonym:sternō

7. (transitive) toutter

• “fundo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fundo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fundo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• fundo inEnrico 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”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes3: D–F,page863

Fromfundus(“bottom, lowest point”).

fundō (present infinitivefundāre,perfect activefundāvī,supinefundātum);first conjugation

1. (transitive) tofound,establish, lay thefoundation

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

2. (transitive,figuratively) tosecure, makefirm

• fundātus

fundō

1. dative/ablativesingular offundus

• “fundo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fundo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fundo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fŭndare”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes3: D–F,page863

• Rhymes:-ũdu

FromOld Galician-Portuguesefundo,fondo, fromLatinfundus(“bottom”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰudʰmḗn.

fundo (femininefunda,masculine pluralfundos,feminine pluralfundas)

1. deep(having its bottom far down)

   Synonym:profundo

   Antonyms:raso,superficial

fundo m (pluralfundos)

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

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fundo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative offundar

   fundo uma instituição ―Iam founding an institution

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fundo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative offundir

   fundo ouro ―Iam smelting gold

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

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

Borrowed fromLatinfundus.Doublet offondo.

fundo m (pluralfundos)

1. countryestate,farm

   Synonym:finca

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes,Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page197:

     La primitiva dueña de estefundo, 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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fundo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative offundar

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fundo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative offundir

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

FromProto-Bantu[Term?].

• IPA^(key):/ˈfuⁿ.dɔ/

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fundo classV (pluralmafundo classVI)

1. aknot(looping of string)
2. ajoint of thebody
3. acluster(group or bunch of things)