fundamentum
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fun.daːˈmen.tum/, [fʊn̪d̪äːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fun.daˈmen.tum/, [fun̪d̪äˈmɛn̪t̪um]
Noun edit
fundāmentum n (genitive fundāmentī); second declension
Declension edit
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 edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: fonament
- Old French: fondement, fundement
- Italian: fondamento
- → English: fondamento
- Old Galician-Portuguese: fondamento
- Galician: fundamento
- Portuguese: fundamento
- Spanish: fundamento
References edit
- “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