different between fonder vs ponder

English

Adjective

fonder

1. comparative form of fond: more fond

Anagrams

• Ferdon, forend

French

Etymology

From Old French fonder and its variants, from Latin fund?re, present active infinitive of fund?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.de/
• Homophones: fondai, fondé, fondée, fondées, fondés, fondez

Verb

fonder

1. to found

Conjugation

Derived terms

• fondateur

Related terms

• fond

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• fondre, fronde, refond

Swedish

Noun

fonder

1. indefinite plural of fond

English

Etymology

From Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”); see pendent and pound.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?n.d?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?n.d?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Verb

ponder (third-person singular simple present ponders, present participle pondering, simple past and past participle pondered)

1. To wonder, think of deeply.
2. To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly.

   Synonyms: chew over, mull over; see also Thesaurus:ponder
3. (obsolete) To weigh.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

ponder (plural ponders)

1. (colloquial) A period of deep thought.

Further reading

• ponder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ponder in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Penrod, proned