fondement
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French fondement, from Latin fundamentum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fondement m (plural fondements)
- foundation
- fundament (anus)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: fundament
Further reading
[edit]- “fondement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin fundamentum.
Noun
[edit]fondement 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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