fondo

See also:fondò

Asturian

Adjective

fondo

1. neuteroffondu

Catalan

Etymology

BorrowedfromSpanishfondo,fromLatinfundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):(Central)[ˈfon.du]
• IPA^(key):(Balearic,Valencia)[ˈfon.do]
• Hyphenation:fon‧do

Adjective

fondo(femininefonda,masculine pluralfondos,feminine pluralfondes)

1. deep

   Synonym:profund

Adverb

fondo

1. deeply

   Synonym:profundament

Further reading

• “fondo”inDiccionari català-valencià-balear,Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “fondo”inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fondo”inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[ˈfondo]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-ondo
• Hyphenation: fon‧do

Noun

fondo(accusative singularfondon,pluralfondoj,accusative pluralfondojn)

1. foundation,founding

Galician

Etymology

FromOld Galician-Portuguesefondo(13th century,Cantigas de Santa Maria), fromLatinfundus(“deep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfondo/[ˈfon̪.d̪ʊ]
• Rhymes:-ondo
• Hyphenation:fon‧do

Adjective

fondo(femininefonda,masculine pluralfondos,feminine pluralfondas)

1. deep
2. intense

   Synonym:intenso

Noun

fondom(pluralfondos)

1. bottom
2. foot(of a mountain, hill)
3. (in theplural)capital

Derived terms

• Fondevila
• Fondo
• Fondo da Aldea
• Fondo da Vila
• Fondo de Vila
• Fondodevila
• ir para o fondo

Related terms

• fondal
• fundo

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo(2006–2022) “fondo”,inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval(in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fondo”,inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval(in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,editor (2006–2013), “fondo”,inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega[Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,editors (2003–2018), “fondo”,inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega(in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco,editor (2014–2024), “fondo”,inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués(in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfon.do/
• Rhymes:-ondo
• Hyphenation:fón‧do

Etymology 1

FromLatinfundus(“deep”).

Adjective

fondo(femininefonda,masculine pluralfondi,feminine pluralfonde)

1. deep

   Synonym:profondo

Derived terms

• fondocampo

Related terms

• affondare
• fondamento
• fondare
• profondo

Noun

fondom(pluralfondi)

1. bottom
2. fund
3. background
4. estate,farm
5. (athletics)cross-countryrunning
6. seat(of trousers)
7. (food)stock,bone broth

Derived terms

• a fondo
• andare a fondo
• da cima a fondo
• di fondo
• fondale
• fondista
• fondo bianco
• fondo bruno
• fondo di cucina
• fondo pensione
• fondoschiena
• fondotinta
• fondovalle
• in fondo
• mezzofondo

Descendants

• →Ottoman Turkish:فوندو(fondo)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the correspondinglemmaform.

Verb

fondo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicativeoffondare
2. first-personsingularpresentindicativeoffondere

Further reading

• fondoinCollins Italian-English Dictionary
• fondoinLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• fondoin Aldo Gabrielli,Grandi Dizionario Italiano(Hoepli)
• fondoin garzantilinguistica.it –Garzanti Linguistica,De Agostini Scuola Spa
• fóndoinDizionario Italiano Olivetti,Olivetti Media Communication

Spanish

Etymology

InheritedfromOld Spanish,fromLatinfundus

PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

The preservation of the initial older 'f' in this word may be to distinguish it from the doublethondo,which became an adjective and continued its phonetic evolution as expected. Also thedoubletoffundo,a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfondo/[ˈfõn̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes:-ondo
• Syllabification:fon‧do

Noun

fondom(pluralfondos)

1. bottom
2. back

   alfondo―at theback

3. fund,funding
4. ground(bottom of a body of water)
5. ground,basis,foundation
6. oppositeside or extreme (of a house, store, room, corridor, street, field, tubing, piping, etc.), respect to the talker, entrance or beginning
7. dip(exercise)

Derived terms

• a fondo
• a fondo perdido
• artículo de fondo
• bajos fondos
• barril sin fondo
• carga a fondo
• corredor de fondo
• echar a fondo
• en el fondo
• esquí de fondo
• estar en fondos
• flujo de fondos
• fondear
• fondo de amortización(“sinking fund”)
• fondo de escritorio(“desktop wallpaper”)
• fondo de inversión
• fondo de pantalla
• fondo de pensiones
• Fondo Monetario Internacional
• fondos de reptiles
• fondos propios
• irse a fondo
• libro de fondo
• mar de fondo
• música de fondo
• pozo sin fondo
• provisión de fondos
• quark fondo
• recaudación de fondos
• ruido de fondo
• telón de fondo
• tocar fondo(“to bottom out; to hit rock-bottom”)
• trasfondo

Related terms

• fundar
• hondo
• profundo

Descendants

• →Catalan:fondo
• →Cebuano:pundo
• →Hiligaynon:pondo
• →Tagalog:pondo

Further reading

• “fondo”,inDiccionario de la lengua española[Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7,Royal Spanish Academy[Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28