# fund
## English
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *bʰudʰmḗn
Borrowed from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond and fundus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfʌnd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌnd

### Noun

fund (plural funds)
* A sum or source of money.
    the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
    a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
* An organization managing such money.
* A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
    Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
* A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
    He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
** 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:an inexhaustible fund of stories
** 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun.

#### Derived terms

* alternative fund
* alternative investment fund
* balanced fund
* bond fund
* chit fund
* closed-end fund
* collateralized fund obligation
* consolidated fund
* contingencies fund
* equity fund
* feeder fund
* forfeiture fund
* fundage
* fundholder
* fundholding
* fund house
* fundless
* fund manager
* fund of funds
* fundraise
* fundraiser
* fund-raiser
* fund-raising
* fundraising
* fun fund
* go-go fund
* growth fund
* health fund
* hedge fund
* honey fund
* honeyfund
* income fund
* index fund
* interfund
* investment fund
* load fund
* master fund
* megafund
* microfund
* money-market fund
* money market fund
* mutual fund
* no-load fund
* open-end fund
* pension fund
* pooled fund
* provident fund
* quant fund
* road fund licence
* sinking fund
* slush fund
* sovereign wealth fund
* stabilization fund
* stock fund
* subfund
* Superfund
* superfund
* trust fund
* trust fund baby
* umbrella fund
* vulture fund
* wage-fund doctrine
* yellow dog fund

#### Translations
### Verb

fund (third-person singular simple present funds, present participle funding, simple past and past participle funded)
* (transitive) To pay or provide money for.
    He used his inheritance to fund his gambling addiction.
* (transitive) To place (money) in a fund.
* (transitive) To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.

#### Derived terms

* co-fund
* crowdfund
* defund
* fundable
* funder
* outfund
* overfund
* part-fund
* self-fund
* underfund
* unfund

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “fund, n.$^1$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* fun, funn — Gheg [fũn]

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fundus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fund]

### Noun

fund m (plural funde, definite fundi, definite plural fundet)
* end
* bottom (lowest part)
* skirt

#### Derived terms

* fundërri (Tosk)
* fundi (Tosk), funi (Gheg)
* fundit (Tosk), funit (Gheg)
* fundor (Tosk), funor (Gheg)

### References

* ↑ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 33, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
* ↑ Dictionnaire Français-Albanais / Fjalor Shqip-Frengjisht, page 462, Vedat Kokona, Tiranë, 2002, →ISBN

### Further reading

* “fund”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* Newmark, L. (1999) “fund”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* fundu, afundu

### Noun

fund n
* Alternative form of fundu

## Danish
### Etymology

Verbal noun to finde (“to find”). Compare Old Norse fundr and German Fund.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɔnˀ]

### Noun

fund n (singular definite fundet, plural indefinite fund)
* find
* bargain
* discovery

#### Inflection
## Icelandic
### Noun

fund
* indefinite accusative singular of fundur

## Middle English
### Noun

fund (plural fundes)
* Alternative form of fend

## Old Norse
### Noun

fund
* accusative/dative singular of fundr

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond, which was borrowed from French.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fund]
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fund n (plural funduri)
* bottom
    Synonym: străfund
* backside; buttocks
    Synonyms: posterior, șezut, dos, popou, cur
* chopping board
    Synonym: tocător

#### Derived terms

* fundaș

#### Related terms

* afunda
* cufunda
* funda
* fundament
* fundație
* înfunda
* scufunda

#### See also

* bucă

### References

* fund in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)