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fundament en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfʌn.də.mənt/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈfan.də.mənt/ (Australia)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Foundation.
2. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
   • I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament. 2008, Eric Summers, Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West, page 38:
   • It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces. 1703, Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized:
   • 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 […] 1861, Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies., page 119
   • 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. 1864, Alfred Fennings, Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well, page 9:
3. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

Forms

Descendants

ffwndament

Relateds

fundamental

Translations (6)

cmn 基礎 /基础 (underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system) · tr temel (underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system) · es fundamento (foundation) · ru фунда́мент (underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system) · fi perusteet (underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system) · ota تمل (underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system)