"fundamental" in seven languages
Meaningfundamental
Spanish
fundamental
/fundamenˈtal/
learned
French
fondamental
/fɔ̃damɑ̃tal/
learned
Italian
fondamentale
/fondamenˈtale/
learned
Portuguese
fundamental
/fũdamẽˈtaw/
learned
Romanian
fundamental
/fundamenˈtal/
learned
Catalan
fonamental
/funəmənˈtal/
learned
Built on inherited fonament 'foundation', where Catalan reduced -ND- to -n-.
English
fundamental
/ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəl/
from Latin/French · Late Latin FUNDĀMENTĀLIS
English → ItalianfundamentalfondamentaleCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
FUNDĀMENTĀLEM‘of the foundation (FUNDĀMENTUM)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
FUNDUS 'bottom' is the root. Spanish keeps the Latin u; French and Italian show their usual o, as in fond and fondo.
English relatives: foundation, fund, profound
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In a sentence
- esEs un derecho fundamental.
- frC'est un droit fondamental.
- itÈ un diritto fondamentale.
- ptÉ um direito fundamental.
- roEste un drept fundamental.
- caÉs un dret fonamental.
- enIt's a fundamental right.
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