fundatio

Latin

Etymology

From fundō (“found, establish”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /funˈdaː.ti.oː/, [fʊn̪ˈd̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /funˈdat.t͡si.o/, [fun̪ˈd̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

fundātiō f (genitive fundātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of founding; foundation.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fundātiō	fundātiōnēs
Genitive	fundātiōnis	fundātiōnum
Dative	fundātiōnī	fundātiōnibus
Accusative	fundātiōnem	fundātiōnēs
Ablative	fundātiōne	fundātiōnibus
Vocative	fundātiō	fundātiōnēs

Related terms

• fundāmen
• fundāmentum
• fundātor
• fundātus
• fundō

Descendants

• → Catalan: fundació
• → English: foundation
• → French: fondation
• → Italian: fondazione
• → Portuguese: fundação
• → Romanian: fundație
• → Spanish: fundación

References

• “fundatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fundatio 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)
• fundatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.