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fundamentum

fundamentum

Latin

Noun

fundāmentum n ‎(genitive fundāmentī); second declension

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fundāmentum	fundāmenta
genitive	fundāmentī	fundāmentōrum
dative	fundāmentō	fundāmentīs
accusative	fundāmentum	fundāmenta
ablative	fundāmentō	fundāmentīs
vocative	fundāmentum	fundāmenta

Descendants

Bulgarian: фундамент ‎(fundament)
Catalan: fonament
Danish: fundament
Dutch: fundament
Esperanto: fundamento
- Ido: fundamento
English: fundament
Old French: fondement
- French: fondement
Galician: fundamento
German: Fundament

Italian: fondamenta
Norwegian Bokmål: fundament
Norwegian Nynorsk: fundament
Polish: fundament
Portuguese: fundamento
Romanian: fundament ‎(fundament)
Russian: фундамент ‎(fundament)
Serbo-Croatian: fundament
Spanish: fundamento
Swedish: fundament

Related terms

References

fundamentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
fundamentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
FUNDAMENTUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fundamentum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lay the foundations: fundamenta iacere, agere