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Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch fundament, from Middle Dutch fondament, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“I lay the bottom, I found”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: fun‧da‧mén
Noun
fundamen (first-person possessive fundamenku, second-person possessive fundamenmu, third-person possessive fundamennya)
- basis.
- Synonyms: alas, dasar
- foundation.
- Synonym: fondasi
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Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From fundō (“found, establish”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
fundāmen n (genitive fundāminis); third declension
- foundation
- Synonyms: fundāmentum, basis
- basis
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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References
- “fundamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fundamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fundamen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fundamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.