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fundament

noun
/ˈfʌn.də.mənt/US/ˈfan.də.mənt/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from fundāmentum
  2. derived from fundement

Definitions

  1. Foundation.

  2. The bottom

    The bottom; the buttocks or anus.

    • It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.
    • 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 […]
    • 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.

  3. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fundament. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA