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Latin
Etymology
fundō + -mentum
Pronunciation
Noun
fundāmentum n (genitive fundāmentī); second declension
- foundation
- Synonym: fundāmen
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.427–428:
- hīc portūs aliī effodiunt; hīc alta theātrīs
fundāmenta locant aliī .- Here some are excavating a harbor; there others lay deep foundations for theaters .
- beginning
- basis
- Synonyms: basis, crepīdō
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “fundamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fundamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fundamentum 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)
- fundamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lay the foundations: fundamenta iacere, agere