- a base or foundation
- the buttocks
- the anus
Origin of fundament
Middle English foundement from Old French from Classical Latin fundamentum from fundare, to lay the bottom from fundus: see fundfundament
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fundament
noun
- a. The buttocks.b. The anus.
- The natural features of a land surface unaltered by humans.
- A foundation, as of a building.
- An underlying theoretical basis or principle: “All neighbor states … must revise … their policy fundaments” ( C.L. Sulzberger )
Origin of fundament
Middle English foundement from Old French fondement from Latin fundāmentum from fundāre to lay the foundation from fundus bottomTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural fundaments)
- Foundation.
- The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
- The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
Origin
Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“I lay the bottom, I found”).
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