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Etymology 1

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    FromOld Frenchfondeur, fromLatinfundātor, equivalent tofound +‎-er.

    Noun

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    founder (pluralfounders)

    1. One whofounds orestablishes (acompany,project,organisation,state, etc.).
      Antonym:ruiner
      Thefounder of Facebook isMark Zuckerberg.
      • 1765,William Blackstone, “Of Corporations”, inCommentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press,→OCLC,page469:
        As to eleemoſynary corporations, by thedotation thefounder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf:[…]
      • 2022 January 13, Arielle Pardes, “Who Do Young Entrepreneurs Look Up To? Elon Musk”, inWired‎[1], San Francisco, Calif.:Condé Nast Publications,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on1 June 2023:
        Young people love to idolize their predecessors.[Steve] Jobs was Silicon Valley's idol of choice for decades, but to the next generation of startupfounders, his legacy feels about as old as Web 1.0.
      • 2023 June 28, Livia Albeck-Ripka, “Chris Printup, Founder of Streetwear Brand Born X Raised, Dies at 42”, inThe New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on6 July 2023:
        Chris Printup, afounder of the streetwear brand Born X Raised, which became a fixture on the Los Angeles fashion scene, died on Wednesday morning at a hospital in Albuquerque. He was 42.
    2. (genetics) Acommon ancestor of somepopulation (especially one with a certaingeneticmutation).
      afounder population
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    Translations
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    one who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author
    someone for whose parents one has no data

    Etymology 2

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      FromMiddle Frenchfondeur, fromLatinfundo(“pour, melt, cast”).

      Noun

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      founder (pluralfounders)

      1. Theiron worker in charge of theblast furnace and thesmelting operation.
        • 1957, H.R. Schubert,History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page161:
          The term 'founder' was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
      2. One whocastsmetals in variousforms; acaster.
        afounder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types
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      Translations
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      worker in charge of the blast furnace and smelting
      one who casts metals in various forms

      Etymology 3

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        FromMiddle Frenchfondrer(“send to the bottom”), fromLatinfundus(“bottom”).

        Noun

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        founder (pluralfounders)

        2. (veterinary medicine) A severelaminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internalinflammation in thehooves.
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        disease of hoof

        Verb

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        founder (third-person singular simple presentfounders,present participlefoundering,simple past and past participlefoundered)

        1. (intransitive, of a ship) Toflood withwater andsink.
          • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe],The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […],→OCLC:
            We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship but we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a shipfoundering in the sea.
          • 1851 November 14,Herman Melville, chapter 9, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC:
            This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that isfoundering at sea in a fog—in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn;(...)
          • 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 27:33 from the start, inLast Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918‎[6], archived fromthe original on4 August 2022:
            Amongst the battleships, things are rather different.Barham led a valiant charge, but suffered for it; she willfounder under tow in the Thames estuary shallows, eventually being refloated and refitted after the war.
        3. (intransitive, especially ofhorses) Tofall; tostumble and golame.
        4. (intransitive) Tofail; tomiscarry.
          • 1613 (date written),William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene ii]:
            All his tricksfounder.
          • 2024 September 4, Philip Haigh, “Can public-private partnerships be made to deliver?”, inRAIL, number1017, page52:
            The other ambitions, and much of Prescott's plan,foundered just south of Hatfield that October, when a GNER express derailed on a shattered rail[…], plunging the railway into a crisis that led to private track owner Railtrack being put into administration.
        5. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause toflood andsink, as aship.
          • 1697,William Dampier,A New Voyage Round the World. […], London: […] James Knapton, […],→OCLC,page82:
            We found a strong Tide setting out of the Streights to the Northward, and like tofounder our Ship.
          • 1744, William Smith,A New Voyage to Guinea, page 167, quoted inThe Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade, Robert Harms, 2008
            "I was amazed when we came among the breakers (which to me seemed large enough tofounder our ship), to see with what wondrous dexterity they carried us through them, and ran their canoes on the top of one of those rolling waves […] "
          • 1932,Hart Crane, "From haunts of Proserpine" (Review ofGreen River: A Poem for Rafinesque, James Whaler
            But still more disastrous was the storm whichfoundered his ship in Long Island Sound, swallowing within call of shore his fifty boxes of scientific equipment, his books, manuscripts and funds, the results of years of devoted labor.
        6. (transitive) Todisable orlame (ahorse) by causinginternalinflammation andsoreness in thefeet orlimbs.
        Translations
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        to sink
        to stumble
        to fail

        Usage notes

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        Frequently confused withflounder. Both may be applied to the same situation, with the difference being the severity of the action:floundering (struggling to maintain position) comes first, followed byfoundering (losing it by falling, sinking, or failing).

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        Old French

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        Etymology

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        FromLatinfundō.

        Verb

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        founder

        1. (late Anglo-Norman)alternative spelling offunder

        Conjugation

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        This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in-er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified tot,z,t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

            Conjugation offounder (see alsoAppendix:Old French verbs)
        simplecompound
        infinitivefounderavoirfoundé
        gerundenfoundantgerund ofavoir + past participle
        present participlefoundant
        past participlefoundé
        personsingularplural
        firstsecondthirdfirstsecondthird
        indicativejotuilnosvosil
        simple
        tenses        		presentfountfoundesfoundefoundonsfoundezfoundent
        imperfectfoundoie,foundeie,foundoe,foundevefoundoies,foundeies,foundoes,foundevesfoundoit,foundeit,foundot,foundevefoundiiens,foundiensfoundiiez,foundiezfoundoient,foundeient,foundoent,foundevent
        preteritefoundaifoundasfoundafoundamesfoundastesfounderent
        futurefounderaifounderasfounderafounderonsfounderoiz,foundereiz,founderezfounderont
        conditionalfounderoie,foundereiefounderoies,foundereiesfounderoit,foundereitfounderiiens,founderiensfounderiiez,founderiezfounderoient,foundereient
        compound
        tenses        		present perfectpresent tense ofavoir + past participle
        pluperfectimperfect tense ofavoir + past participle
        past anteriorpreterite tense ofavoir + past participle
        future perfectfuture tense ofavoir + past participle
        conditional perfectconditional tense ofavoir + past participle
        subjunctiveque joque tuqu’ilque nosque vosqu’il
        simple
        tenses        		presentfountfounzfountfoundonsfoundezfoundent
        imperfectfoundassefoundassesfoundastfoundissons,foundissiensfoundissoiz,foundissez,foundissiezfoundassent
        compound
        tenses        		pastpresent subjunctive ofavoir + past participle
        pluperfectimperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle
        imperative–tu–nosvos–
        —founde—foundonsfoundez—
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