fundament
See also: Fundament
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“I lay the bottom, I found”).
Noun
fundament (plural fundaments)
- Foundation.
- 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:
- I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament.
- 1703, Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized:
- The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch fondament, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“I lay the bottom, I found”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌfʏn.daːˌmɛnt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: fun‧da‧ment
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Noun
fundament n (plural fundamenten, diminutive fundamentje n)
- basis
- foundation, basis
- Synonym: fundering
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin fundamentum
Noun
fundament n (definite singular fundamentet, indefinite plural fundament or fundamenter, definite plural fundamenta or fundamentene)
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin fundamentum
Noun
fundament n (definite singular fundamentet, indefinite plural fundament, definite plural fundamenta)
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Polish

fundamenty
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /funˈda.mɛnt/
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