fund

See also: Fund

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fond, from Latin fundus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʌnd/
  • Rhymes: -ʌnd

Noun

fund (plural funds)

  1. A sum or source of money.
    the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
    a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
  2. An organization managing such money.
  3. A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
    Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
  4. A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
    He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
    • Macaulay
      an inexhaustible fund of stories

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fund (third-person singular simple present funds, present participle funding, simple past and past participle funded)

  1. (transitive) To pay for.

Translations


Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fundus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fund]

Noun

fund m

  1. end
  2. bottom (lowest part)

Derived terms

References

  1. Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 33, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. Dictionnaire Français-Albanais / Fjalor Shqip-Frengjisht, page 462, Vedat Kokona, Tiranë, 2002, ISBN 99927-726-4-6

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Noun

fund n

  1. Alternative form of fundu

Danish

Etymology

Verbal noun to finde (to find). Compare Old Norse fundr and Middle Low German vunt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fon/, [fɔnˀ]

Noun

fund n (singular definite fundet, plural indefinite fund)

  1. find
  2. bargain
  3. discovery

Inflection


Icelandic

Noun

fund

  1. indefinite accusative singular of fundur

Middle English

Noun

fund (plural fundes)

  1. Alternative form of feend

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin fundus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [fund]

Noun

fund n (plural funduri)

  1. bottom
  2. backside; buttocks

Declension

Derived terms

See also

References

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