fondo

fondo

1. neuter of fondu

Borrowed from Spanish fondo, from Latin fundus.

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• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia)
• Hyphenation: fon‧do

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

1. deep

   Synonym: profund

fondo

1. deeply

   Synonym: profundament

• “fondo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “fondo” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fondo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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• Rhymes: -ondo
• Hyphenation: 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/
• 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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fondo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fondo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, 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 Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé 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

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

fondo (disambiguation)

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• 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
2. 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

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Fondo (disambiguation)

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Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin fundus

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/
• 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, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10