fondement
French
editEtymology
editFrom Old French fondement, from Latin fundamentum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfondement m (plural fondements)
- foundation
- fundament (anus)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → Romanian: fundament
Further reading
edit- “fondement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin fundamentum.
Noun
editfondement oblique singular, m (oblique plural fondemenz or fondementz, nominative singular fondemenz or fondementz, nominative plural fondement)
- foundation, start, beginning
- foundation (of a building)
Descendants
edit- French: fondement
- → Romanian: fundament
- → Middle Dutch: fondament
- Dutch: fundament (see there for further descendants)
- → English: fundament, foundament (obsolete)
- → Welsh: ffwndament
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