different between founder vs ceo

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fa?nd?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fa?nd?/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?(?)
• Hyphenation: found?er

Etymology 1

From Old French fondeur, from Latin fund?tor.

Noun

founder (plural founders, feminine foundress)

1. One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state)

2. (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.

Antonyms

• (one who founds): ruiner

Derived terms

• cofounder

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French fondeur, from Latin fundo (“pour, melt, cast”)

Noun

founder (plural founders)

1. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 161.

     The term 'founder' was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.

2. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.

   a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”)

Noun

founder (plural founders)

1. (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.

Translations

Verb

founder (third-person singular simple present founders, present participle foundering, simple past and past participle foundered)

1. (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship but we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea.
2. (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
3. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
4. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
   • 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World, Volume I, page 82

     We found a strong Tide setting out of the Streights to the Northward, and like to founder our Ship.

   • 1744, William Smith, A New Voyage to Guinea, page 167, quoted in The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade, Robert Harms, 2008

     "I was amazed when we came among the breakers (which to me seemed large enough to founder our ship), to see with what wondrous dexterity they carried us through them, and ran their canoes on the top of one of those rolling waves […] "

   • 1932, Hart Crane, "From haunts of Proserpine" (Review of Green River: A Poem for Rafinesque, James Whaler

     But still more disastrous was the storm which foundered his ship in Long Island Sound, swallowing within call of shore his fifty boxes of scientific equipment, his books, manuscripts and funds, the results of years of devoted labor.

5. (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.

Translations

Usage notes

Frequently confused with flounder. Both may be applied to the same situation, the difference is the severity of the action: floundering (struggling to maintain position) comes first, followed by foundering (losing it by falling, sinking or failing).

Anagrams

• Neudorf, fonduer, refound

Old French

Etymology

From Latin fund?.

Verb

founder

1. (late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of funder

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

English

Noun

ceo (countable and uncountable, plural ceos)

1. (aviation) Alternative letter-case form of CEO

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin cit?.

Adverb

ceo

1. early

Galician

Alternative forms

• ceio

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ceo (“sky; heaven”), 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria; from Latin caelum (“sky”). Cognate with Portuguese céu and Spanish cielo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????], [?????], (western) [?s???]

Noun

ceo m (plural ceos)

1. sky

   Synonym: firmamento

2. heaven
   • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 294:

     Maria virgen que he auogada dos pecadores et acorremento dos cuitados complida de todas uirtudes et de todas santidades sobrelas outras criaturas que deus quis facer enno ceo et enna terra

     Mary the Virgin, advocate of the sinners and aid of the afflicted, complete of every virtue and of every saintliness over all the other creature that God wanted to make in Heaven as well as in Earth

3. ceiling
   • 1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 295:

     mando esta mia cama assy como iaz con sous panos et con suas cortinas et ceo

     I bequeath this my bed, as it is, with its clothes and with its curtains and ceiling

   Synonym: teito

Derived terms

• ceo da boca (“roof of the mouth”)

References

• “ceo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “ceo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “ceo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “ceo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ceo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ceó, from Proto-Celtic *kiw-o- (“fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *?yeh?-wó-s (“dark; deep brown”), see also Avestan ????????????????????????????? (sii?uua), Persian ????? (siyâh, “black”), Russian ????? (sivyj, “grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Old English h?ew (modern English hue).

Celtic relatives include Manx kay and Scottish Gaelic ceò. Also compare English sky.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /k?o?/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /k???/

Noun

ceo m (genitive singular ceo or ciach or ceoigh, nominative plural ceonna or ceocha)

1. fog, mist
2. haze
3. vapour
4. (in questions and negative sentences) nothing, anything

Declension

Archaic or dialectal forms:

• Alternative genitive singular: ceoigh
• Alternative dative plural forms: ceochaibh, ceonnaibh

Derived terms

• toitcheo (“smog”)

Mutation

References

Further reading

• "ceo" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “ceo” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 ceó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old English

Alternative forms

• ??o
• ??a – normalised

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kahwu, probably ultimately imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??e?o?/

Noun

??o f

1. a chough, a bird of the genus Corvus; a jay; crow; jackdaw

Related terms

• ceahhe

Descendants

• Middle English: ka, co, cheo, cho?e, choughe, chowe, chow
  • Scots: ka, kae, kea, keaw
  • English: coe, chough

References

Old French

Pronoun

ceo

1. Alternative form of ço

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin caelum (“sky”). Cognate with Old Spanish cielo, Old Occitan cel and Old French ciel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s?.o/

Noun

ceo m (plural ceos)

1. sky

   • Como un tafur tirou con h?a bae?ta h?a seeta cõtra o ceo con ?anna p? q? pdera. p? q? cuidaua q? firia a deos o.?.M?.

     How a gambler shot, with a crossbow, a bolt at the sky, wrathful because he had lost. Because he wanted it to wound God or Holy Mary.

2. (religion) heaven

   • Subiu ao ceo. o fillo / de de?. por dar paray.?aos amigo^s ?e?

     Ascended to heaven, the son of God. For giving paradise to his friends.

Descendants

• Fala: ceu
• Galician: ceo
• Portuguese: céu (see there for further descendants)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• c?o, cij?l (Ijekavian)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *c?l?, from Proto-Indo-European *koylos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?sêo/

Adjective

c?o (definite c?l?, comparative c?lj?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. whole
2. entire, complete

Declension

Venetian

Adjective

ceo m (feminine singular cea, masculine plural cei, feminine plural cee)

1. small
2. minute

Synonyms

• picenin