fundamentum
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /fun.daːˈmen.tum/, [fʊn̪d̪äːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fun.daˈmen.tum/, [fun̪d̪äˈmɛn̪t̪um]
Noun
fundāmentum n (genitive fundāmentī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fundāmentum | fundāmenta |
Genitive | fundāmentī | fundāmentōrum |
Dative | fundāmentō | fundāmentīs |
Accusative | fundāmentum | fundāmenta |
Ablative | fundāmentō | fundāmentīs |
Vocative | fundāmentum | fundāmenta |
Related terms
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: фундамент (fundament)
- Catalan: fonament
- → Danish: fundament
- → Esperanto: fundamento
- Ido: fundamento
- Old French: fondement
- French: fondement
- → Middle Dutch: fondament
- → Dutch: fundament
- → English: fundament
- → Welsh: ffwndament
- Galician: fundamento
- → German: Fundament
- → Old Irish: fundamint
- Irish: fundaimint, fuaimint
- Italian: fondamenta
- → Norwegian Bokmål: fundament
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: fundament
- → Polish: fundament
- Portuguese: fundamento
- Romanian: fundament
- → Russian: фундамент (fundament)
- → Serbo-Croatian: fundament
- Spanish: fundamento
- → Swedish: fundament
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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lay the foundations: fundamenta iacere, agere
- to lay the foundations: fundamenta iacere, agere