different between fondation vs fundament

French

Etymology

From fonder +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.da.sj??/

Noun

fondation f (plural fondations)

1. (business) foundation
2. (construction) foundation

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fund?mentum (“foundation”), from fund? (“I lay the bottom, I found”). Doublet of fondamento.

Noun

fundament (plural fundaments)

1. Foundation.
2. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
   • 1703, Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized:

     It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.

   • 1861, Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies., page 119

     ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck […]

   • 1864, Alfred Fennings, Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well, page 9

     Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament, beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.

   • 2008, Eric Summers, Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West, page 38[1]:

     I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament.

3. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

Related terms

• fundamental

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch fondament, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fund? (“I lay the bottom, I found”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?n.da??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: fun?da?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

fundament n (plural fundamenten, diminutive fundamentje n)

1. basis
2. foundation, basis

   Synonym: fundering

Related terms

• fundamenteel

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: fundamen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fundamentum

Noun

fundament n (definite singular fundamentet, indefinite plural fundament or fundamenter, definite plural fundamenta or fundamentene)

1. a foundation

Related terms

• fundamental

References

• “fundament” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin fundamentum

Noun

fundament n (definite singular fundamentet, indefinite plural fundament, definite plural fundamenta)

1. a foundation

Related terms

• fundamental

References

• “fundament” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fun?da.m?nt/

Noun

fundament m inan

1. foundation (lowest and supporting part or member of a wall)

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French fondement

Noun

fundament n (plural fundamente)

1. foundation

Declension