# fundament
## English
### Alternative forms

* foundament (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“I lay the bottom, I found”). Doublet of fondamento.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈfʌn.də.mənt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈfan.də.mənt/
* Hyphenation: fun‧da‧ment

### 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.
* The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

#### Related terms

* fundamental

#### Descendants

* → Welsh: ffwndament

#### Translations
## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌfʏn.daːˌmɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fun‧da‧ment
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

fundament n (plural fundamenten, diminutive fundamentje n)
* basis
* foundation, basis
    Synonym: fundering

#### Related terms

* fundamenteel

#### Descendants

* Negerhollands: fondament
* → Caribbean Javanese: pandhemèn
* → Indonesian: fundamen
* → Papiamentu: fondement

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin fundāmentum.

### Noun

fundament n (definite singular fundamentet, indefinite plural fundament or fundamenter, definite plural fundamenta or fundamentene)
* a foundation

#### Related terms

* fundamental

### References

* “fundament” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin fundāmentum.

### Noun

fundament n (definite singular fundamentet, indefinite plural fundament, definite plural fundamenta)
* a foundation

#### Related terms

* fundamental

### References

* “fundament” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* fudament (Lasovia)

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fundāmentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /funˈda.mɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -amɛnt
* Syllabification: fun‧da‧ment

### Noun

fundament m inan
* (architecture) foundation (lowest and supporting part or member of a wall)
* (figurative) base, basis, foundation
    Synonyms: baza, podstawa

#### Declension
### Further reading

* fundament in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* fundament in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fondement. By surface analysis, funda +‎ -ment.

### Noun

fundament n (plural fundamente)
* foundation