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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

English

Alternative forms

• foundament (when used as a noun)

Etymology

From Late Latin fundament?lis, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fund? (“to lay the foundation (of something), to found”), from fundus (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ud?m?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?nd??m?nt?l/
• Hyphenation: fun?da?men?tal

Noun

fundamental (plural fundamentals)

1. (usually in the plural) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; an essential part

   one of the fundamentals of linear algebra

2. (physics) The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
3. (music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.

Translations

Adjective

fundamental (comparative more fundamental, superlative most fundamental)

1. Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.
2. Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.

Synonyms

• groundlaying
• See also Thesaurus:bare-bones

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Danish

Etymology

From fundament +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ndam?nta?l/, [f?nd?am?n?t?æ??l]

Adjective

fundamental

1. basic, fundamental

Inflection

Synonyms

• afgørende
• basal
• grundliggende, grundlæggende

Derived terms

• fundamentalisme
• fundamentalist

Galician

Etymology

From Latin fund?ment?lis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fundamental m or f (plural fundamentais)

1. fundamental

Further reading

• “fundamental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

From Latin fund?ment?lis; synchronically analyzable as Fundament +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ndam?n?ta?l/
• Hyphenation: fun?da?men?tal

Adjective

fundamental (comparative fundamentaler, superlative am fundamentalsten)

1. fundamental

Declension

Synonyms

• grundlegend

Derived terms

• Fundamentalismus, Fundamentalist

Related terms

• Fundamentalerkenntnis, Fundamentalentscheidung, Fundamentalgesetz, Fundamentalsatz

Further reading

• “fundamental” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fundamentalis

Adjective

fundamental (masculine and feminine fundamental, neuter fundamentalt, definite singular and plural fundamentale)

1. fundamental, basic

Related terms

• fundament

References

• “fundamental” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fundamental” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin fundamentalis

Adjective

fundamental (masculine and feminine fundamental, neuter fundamentalt, definite singular and plural fundamentale)

1. fundamental, basic

Related terms

• fundament

References

• “fundamental” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin fund?ment?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?f?.da.m?.?taw/, /f?.?da.m?.?taw/
• Hyphenation: fun?da?men?tal

Adjective

fundamental m or f (plural fundamentais, comparable)

1. fundamental; essential (pertaining to the basic part or notion of something)

   Synonyms: essencial, básico

Derived terms

• fundamentalismo
• fundamentalista
• fundamentalmente

Further reading

• “fundamental” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “fundamental” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French fondamental, from Latin fundamentalis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fun.da.men?tal/

Adjective

fundamental m or n (feminine singular fundamental?, masculine plural fundamentali, feminine and neuter plural fundamentale)

1. fundamental

Declension

Related terms

References

• fundamental in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin fund?ment?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fundamen?tal/, [f?n?.d?a.m?n??t?al]
• Hyphenation: fun?da?men?tal

Adjective

fundamental (plural fundamentales)

1. fundamental

Derived terms

• fundamentalismo
• fundamentalista
• fundamentalmente
• interacción fundamental

Related terms

• fundamentar
• fundamento
• fundar

Further reading

• “fundamental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Adjective

fundamental (not comparable)

1. fundamental

Declension

References

• fundamental in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fundamental in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)