fundo

Pronunciation: [ˈfʊn.doː]

“fundo” is a Latin word. Its 9 meanings in English:

verb

to pour out, shed
to melt, cast, found, make by smelting
to overthrow, overcome, rout, vanquish an enemy, rout, scatter
to throw or cast to the ground, prostrate
to moisten, wet
to extend, spread out
to utter
to found, establish, lay the foundation
to secure, make firm

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *hundō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰu-né-d-ti ~ *ǵʰu-n-d-énti, nasal infix present of the root *ǵʰew-d- (“to pour”), extended from *ǵʰew-. The change from Proto-Italic *h- to Latin f- is unique to this word; Weiss takes it as regular before *-u-. The perfect form fūdī is potentially the continuation of a PIE root aorist *ǵʰéwd-t ~ *ǵʰud-ént. The perfect participle fūsus could…

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