fundamentum

fundō +‎ -mentum

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fun.daːˈmen.tum/, [fʊn̪d̪äːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fun.daˈmen.tum/, [fun̪d̪äˈmɛn̪t̪um]

fundāmentum n (genitive fundāmentī); second declension

1. foundation

   Synonym: fundāmen

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.427–428:

     hīc portūs aliī effodiunt; hīc alta theātrīs
     fundāmenta locant aliī [...].

     Here some [workers] are excavating a harbor; there others lay deep foundations for theaters [...].

2. beginning
3. basis

   Synonyms: basis, crepīdō

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• fundāmen
• fundus

• “fundamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fundamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fundamentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fundamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lay the foundations: fundamenta iacere, agere