fondo

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See also: fondò

Asturian

Adjective

fondo

  1. neuter of fondu

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fondo, from Latin fundus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. deep
    Synonym: profund

Adverb

fondo

  1. deeply
    Synonym: profundament

Further reading

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ondo
  • Hyphenation: fon‧do

Noun

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

  1. foundation, founding

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. deep
  2. intense

Noun

fondo m (plural fondos)

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

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References

  • “fondo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “fondo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “fondo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “fondo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “fondo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin fundus (“deep”).

Adjective

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

  1. deep
    Synonym: profondo
Derived terms
Related terms

Noun

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
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Ottoman Turkish: فوندو (fondo)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fondo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fondare
  2. first-person singular present indicative of fondere

Further reading

  • 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

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Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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