fundament

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

fundament (plural fundaments)

1. Foundation.
2. 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.

3. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

• fundamental

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌfʏn.daːˌmɛnt/

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• Hyphenation: fun‧da‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

fundament n (plural fundamenten, diminutive fundamentje n)

1. basis
2. foundation, basis

   Synonym: fundering

• fundamenteel

From Latin fundamentum

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

1. a foundation

• fundamental

• “fundament” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin fundamentum

fundament n (definite singular fundamentet, indefinite plural fundament, definite plural fundamenta)

1. a foundation

• fundamental

• “fundament” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /funˈda.mɛnt/

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fundament m inan

1. foundation (lowest and supporting part or member of a wall)