Etymology

fundament

fun·da·ment
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Today it means: Foundation. Full definition →

Middle English fundament ← Latin fundāmentuminflu. ← Old French fondement
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰewbʰ-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰudʰmḗn
  3. Proto-Indo-European*bʰudʰnós
  4. Proto-Indo-European*bʰundʰós
  5. Proto-Italic*fundos
  6. Latinfundus
  7. Latinfundō
  8. Latinfundāmentum
  9. Old Frenchfondement
  10. Middle Englishfoundement
  11. Latinfundāmentuminflu.
  12. Middle Englishfundament
  13. English todayfundament

Inherited from Middle English fundament, modification of foundement, from Old French fondement, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the bottom, to found”). Doublet of fondamento.

Words from the same roots

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fundamental

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