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6-letter words (1 found)

FUNDUS,

5-letter words (2 found)

DUFUS,FUNDS,

4-letter words (4 found)

DUNS,FUDS,FUND,FUNS,

3-letter words (8 found)

DUN,FUD,FUN,NUS,SUD,SUN,UDS,UNS,

2-letter words (4 found)

FU,NU,UN,US,

You can make 19 words from fundus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fundus

fundus

Etymology

From Latin fundus (“bottom”). Doublet of fond and fund.

Noun

fundus (plural fundi)

  1. (anatomy) The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:
    1. The top, hollow portion of the uterus.
    2. The back, interior part of the eye, accommodating the retina and associated blood vessels, etc.
    3. The uppermost hollow of the stomach, which in humans forms a bulge above where the oesophagus enters the stomach.
    4. The deepest part of a sulcus, such as of the sulci of the human cerebral cortex.

Derived terms

  • fundectomy
  • fundic
  • fundusectomy

Translations

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Verb

fundus

  1. conditional of fundi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *funðos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-(m)n-o-s, from *bʰudʰmḗn. Compare the similar treatment in Ancient Greek πύνδαξ (púndax, “bottom”). Cognates include Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna), Persian بن (bon, “root, bottom”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom”), and Old English botm (English bottom).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfun.dus/, [ˈfʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfun.dus/, [ˈfun̪d̪us]

Noun

fundus m (genitive fundī); second declension

  1. bottom
  2. farm, piece of land, estate, demesne
  3. ground
  4. foundation
  5. an authority

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "bottom"): vertex

Derived terms

  • adfundō
  • *affundō
  • funditus
  • fundō
  • fundulus
  • profundus

Related terms

  • fundāmen
  • fundāmentum
  • fundātiō
  • fundātor
  • fundātus

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: fundu, afundu, fund
    • Romanian: fund
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: fondo
    • Sicilian: funnu
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: font, fonz
    • Ladin: fond
    • Ligurian: fondo
    • Lombard: fond, hond
    • Piedmontese: fons
    • Venetian: fondo
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: fons
    • Old French:
      • French: fond (see there for further descendants)
      • → English: fund
    • Occitan: fons
      • → Basque: funts
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: fondu
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: fundo, fondo
      • Fala: fundu
      • Galician: fundo, fondo
      • Portuguese: fundo
    • Old Spanish: fondo
      • Spanish: fondo, hondo
        • → Cebuano: pundo
        • → Basque: hondo
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: fundhu, fundu, funnu
  • Vulgar Latin: *affundāre (see there for further descendants)
  • Borrowings:
    • → Albanian: fund, fun, funn
    • → German: Fundus
    • → Polish: fundusz (learned)
      • → Kashubian: fùndusz
    • → Spanish: fundo

References

  • “fundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fundus 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)
  • fundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “fundus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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