different between fond vs cond

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f?nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Homophone: fawned (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English fond, fonned, past participle of fonnen (“to be foolish, be simple, dote”), equivalent to fon +? -ed. More at fon.

Adjective

fond (comparative fonder, superlative fondest)

1. (chiefly with of) Having a liking or affection (for).
   • a great traveller, and fond of telling his adventures

2. Affectionate.

3. Indulgent.

4. Outlandish; foolish; silly.

   Your fond dreams of flying to Jupiter have been quashed by the facts of reality.

5. (obsolete) Foolish; simple; weak.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, sc. 1:

     If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent

     to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes near

     nobody.

   • 1605–06, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, sc. 2:

     Grant I may never prove so fond

     To trust man on his oath or bond.

   • 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Midnight Mass For the Dying Year

     The foolish, fond Old Year,

6. (obsolete) Doted on; regarded with affection.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:affectionate

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fond (third-person singular simple present fonds, present participle fonding, simple past and past participle fonded)

1. (obsolete) To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of.
2. (obsolete) To caress; to fondle.

   • The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast.

Synonyms

• (to caress): grope, pet, touch up; see also Thesaurus:fondle

Derived terms

• fondle

Translations

Etymology 2

From French, ultimately from Latin fundus. Doublet of fund and fundus.

Noun

fond (plural fonds)

1. The background design in lace-making.
2. (cooking) Brown residue in pans from cooking meats and vegetables.

3. (information science) A group of records having shared provenance.
4. (obsolete) Foundation; bottom; groundwork.
5. (obsolete) Fund, stock, or store.

Translations

Czech

Etymology

From French fond

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?font]

Noun

fond m

1. fund

Derived terms

Further reading

• fond in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• fond in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

From French fond, from Latin fundus, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ud?m?n. Cognate with Danish bund.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?n?d?]
• Homophone: font

Noun

fond c or n (singular definite fonden or fondet, plural indefinite fonde or fonder)

1. fund
2. foundation, donation

Etymology 2

From French fond, identical to the former word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?n?d?], [?f??]

Noun

fond c (singular definite fonden, plural indefinite fonder)

1. stock, broth

Inflection

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??/

Etymology 1

From Old French, from Latin fundus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?ud?m?n.

Noun

fond m (plural fonds)

1. back
2. bottom
3. fund; funding
4. foundation
5. (figuratively) basics, essence
6. background
7. (cooking) base
8. (music) foundation stop on a pipe organ

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fond

1. third-person singular present indicative of fondre

Further reading

• “fond” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• fonjad

Etymology

fon +? -d

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fond]
• Hyphenation: fond
• Rhymes: -ond

Verb

fond

1. second-person singular subjunctive present definite of fon

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin fundus.

Noun

fond m (plural fonds)

1. fund
2. bottom

Maltese

Etymology

From Italian fondo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?nt/

Adjective

fond (feminine singular fonda, plural fondi)

1. deep

   Synonyms: g?ammieq, profond

Derived terms

• fannad

Noun

fond m

1. depth (that which is deep below; the deepest part)

   Synonyms: g?amieq, profondità

2. base; bottom
3. fund

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English f?ond.

Noun

fond (plural fondes)

1. Alternative form of feend

Etymology 2

From fonnen +? -ed.

Adjective

fond

1. Alternative form of fonned

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French fond, from Latin fundus

Noun

fond n (definite singular fondet, indefinite plural fond, definite plural fonda or fondene)

1. a fund

Derived terms

• pensjonsfond

References

• “fond” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French fond, from Latin fundus

Noun

fond n (definite singular fondet, indefinite plural fond, definite plural fonda)

1. a fund

Derived terms

• pensjonsfond

References

• “fond” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fond, itself from Latin fundus. Doublet of the inherrited fund.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fond/

Noun

fond n (plural fonduri)

1. fund
2. background
3. content, substance, essence

Declension

Derived terms

• în fond (“essentially, basically”)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French fond

Noun

f?nd m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. fund

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From French fond

Pronunciation

Noun

fond c

1. fund
2. backdrop; a theatrical scenery
3. ("Kitchen French") broth

Declension

Related terms

fund

• fondera

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nd

Etymology 1

Clipping.

Adjective

cond (not comparable)

1. Clipping of conditional.

Etymology 2

From Middle English conduen, condien, French conduire (“to conduct”), from Latin conducere.

Verb

cond (third-person singular simple present conds, present participle conding, simple past and past participle conded)

1. Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”)
   • 1922, Publications of the Navy Records Society:

     Sometimes he who conds the ship will be speaking to him at helm at every little yaw; which the sea-faring men love not, as being a kind of disgrace to their steerage; then in mockage they will say, sure the channel is narrow he conds so thick […]

Further reading

• cond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• no-CD