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fundamental
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)
- (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
- (physics) The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
- (music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.
Translations
Adjective
fundamental (comparative more fundamental, superlative most fundamental)
- Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- fundamental
Declension
References
- fundamental in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- fundamental in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
fundamental From the web:
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- what is fundamental
canon
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English canoun, from Old French canon, from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to ????? (kánna, “reed”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew ?????? (qane, “reed”) and Arabic ??????? (qan?h, “reed”)). Doublet of qanun. See also cane.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?n'?n, IPA(key): /?kæn.?n/
- Rhymes: -æn?n
- Homophone: cannon
Noun
canon (countable and uncountable, plural canons)
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- 2015, William Styron, "Irwin Shaw", in My Generation: Collected Nonfiction, page 456
- the durable canon of American short fiction
- 2015, William Styron, "Irwin Shaw", in My Generation: Collected Nonfiction, page 456
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- (fandom slang, uncountable) Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
- 2014, Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
- Meanwhile, having learned the whereabouts of the Death Star's plans, the rebels send their best platypus agent to obtain them, in hopes of finding a weakness. And none of this is canon, so just relax.
- 2014, Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
- (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.
- (printing, dated, uncountable) A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (billiards) A carom.
Synonyms
- (48-point type): French canon
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English canoun, ultimately from Latin canonicus (either by shortening or back-formation from Old English canonic, or via Anglo-Norman chanoine).
Noun
canon (plural canons)
- A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
Derived terms
- Canonbury
- Canons Park
- Stoke Canon
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
canon (plural canons)
- Alternative spelling of qanun
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “canon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- “canon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- Ancon, Conan, ancon
Dutch
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to ????? (kánna, “reed”), perhaps from Semitic (compare Hebrew ???? (qaneh, “reed”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ka?.n?n/
- Hyphenation: ca?non
Noun
canon m (plural canons, diminutive canonnetje n)
- canon (set of representative or pre-eminent literary works)
- (chiefly Christianity) canon (set of authoritative religious books, especially those constituting the Bible)
- (Christianity) canon (religious law)
- (music) canon (round, music piece consisting of the same melody sung by different voices)
- (Roman Catholicism) canon (part of a mass following the Sanctus up to the end of the Pater Noster, consisting mostly of prayers)
- (dated) canon (principle, rule)
Derived terms
- canoniek
- canoniseren
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.n??/
Etymology 1
From Old French canon, from canne + -on, corresponding to Italian cannone.
Noun
canon m (plural canons)
- cannon, (big) gun
- barrel (of firearm)
- cannon for a horse.
Derived terms
- boulet de canon
- canon à eau
- chair à canon
- fusil à canon scié
- poudre à canon
- tuer une mouche avec un canon
Etymology 2
From Old French canon, borrowed from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”).
The 'attractive person' sense comes from an ellipsis of canon de beauté.
Noun
canon m (plural canons)
- canon
- (music) canon
- (religion) canon
- (slang) hottie, dish, bombshell (attractive man/woman)
- Synonym: avion de chasse
Derived terms
- canon à neige
- canon de beauté
Etymology 3
From the above noun (see sense 4) by conversion.
Adjective
canon (plural canons)
- (informal, of a person) hot, sexy
Etymology 4
canne +? -on.
Noun
canon m (plural canons)
- (slang) glass of wine
Further reading
- “canon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ka.no?n/, [?käno?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ka.non/, [?k??n?n]
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to ????? (kánna, “reed”), perhaps from Semitic (compare Hebrew ???? (qaneh, “reed”)).
Noun
can?n m (genitive canonis); third declension
- a measuring line
- (figuratively) precept, rule, canon
- a yearly tribute paid to the emperor; (Medieval Latin, by extension) a periodic payment
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) authorized catalog, especially of books of the Bible or of the saints
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) decree of a church synod
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) the Canon of the Mass
- (Medieval Latin) relic
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- can?niz?
Synonyms
- (precept, rule): n?rma, praeceptum, r?gula
Descendants
- Catalan: cànon
- English: canon
- French: canon
- Irish: canóin
- Italian: canone
- Russian: ?????? (kanón)
- Spanish: canon
Etymology 2
From canna (“pipe”), compare Italian cannone and Old French canon.
Noun
can?n m (genitive can?nis); third declension
- (Medieval Latin) a cannon (artillery)
References
- canon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- canon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- canon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- canon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- canon in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “canon”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill
Norman
Etymology
From Old French canon.
Noun
canon m (plural canons)
- cannon
Old French
Etymology 1
canne +? -on, corresponding to Italian cannone.
Noun
canon m (oblique plural canons, nominative singular canons, nominative plural canon)
- tube
- cannon
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”).
- canon
Descendants
- English: canon
- French: canon
- Norman: canon
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek ????? (kanón), possibly partly through a South Slavic language intermediate.
Noun
canon n (plural canoane)
- canon
- (usually in regards to religion) tenet, dogma, rule, norm, precept
- punishment or penance for breaking such a religious rule
Declension
Derived terms
- canoni
Related terms
- canonic
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin can?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (kan?n, “measuring rod, standard”) (compare ????? (kánna, “reed”)), perhaps of Semitic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kanon/, [?ka.nõn]
Noun
canon m (plural cánones)
- canon (principle, literary works, prayer, religious law, music piece)
- Synonyms: norma, precepto, regla
- tax, fee
Related terms
- canónico
- canonizar
References
Further reading
- “canon” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Welsh
Alternative forms
- canasom (literary, first-person plural)
- canasant (literary, third-person plural)
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /?kan?n/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?ka?n?n/, /?kan?n/
Verb
canon
- (colloquial) first-person plural preterite of canu
- (colloquial) third-person plural preterite of canu
Mutation
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