fondo

See also: fondò

Asturian

Adjective

fondo

1. neuter of fondu

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fondo, from Latin fundus.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

fondo (feminine fonda, masculine plural fondos, feminine plural fondes)

1. deep

   Synonym: profund

Adverb

fondo

1. deeply

   Synonym: profundament

Further reading

• “fondo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “fondo” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fondo” in Diccionari 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 singular fondon, plural fondoj, accusative plural fondojn)

1. foundation, founding

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fondo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fundus (“deep”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

fondo (feminine fonda, masculine plural fondos, feminine plural fondas)

1. deep
2. intense

   Synonym: intenso

Noun

fondo m (plural fondos)

1. bottom
2. foot (of a mountain, hill)
3. (in the plural) 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”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fondo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fondo”, in Dicionario 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”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fondo”, in Tesouro 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

From Latin fundus (“deep”).

Adjective

fondo (feminine fonda, masculine plural fondi, feminine plural fonde)

1. deep

   Synonym: profondo

Derived terms

• fondocampo

 

Related terms

• affondare
• fondamento
• fondare
• profondo

 

Noun

fondo m (plural fondi)

1. bottom
2. fund
3. background
4. estate, farm
5. (athletics) cross-country running
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 corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fondo

1. first-person singular present indicative of fondare
2. first-person singular present indicative of fondere

Further reading

• fondo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• fondo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• fondo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• fondo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• fóndo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin fundus

PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fondo m (plural fondos)

1. bottom
2. back

   al fondo ― at the back

3. fund, funding
4. ground (bottom of a body of water)
5. ground, basis, foundation
6. opposite side 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”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10