fundamen

From Dutch fundament, from Middle Dutch fondament, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“I lay the bottom, I found”).

• IPA^(key): [fʊnˈd̪amen]
• Hyphenation: fun‧da‧mén

fundamen (plural fundamen-fundamen)

1. basis

   Synonyms: alas, dasar

2. foundation

   Synonym: fondasi

• fondamen
• pondamen

• “fundamen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From fundō (“found, establish”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fʊnˈdaː.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fun̪ˈd̪aː.men]

fundāmen n (genitive fundāminis); third declension

1. foundation

   Synonyms: fundāmentum, basis

2. basis

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• fundāmentum
• fundō

• “fundamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fundamen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fundamen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fundamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.