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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:
- what fundamental means
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- what is fundamental
ontological
English
Etymology
ontology +? -ical
Adjective
ontological (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to, ontology.
- Of or pertaining to the nature of being or existence.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 3:
- Such is the human ontological imagination, and such is the convincingness of what it brings to birth. Unpicturable beings are realized, and realized with an intensity almost like that of an hallucination.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 3:
Derived terms
- ontological argument
- ontological shock
- preontological
Related terms
- ontic
Translations
Anagrams
- tonological
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