From en.wiktionary.org:
[Fundament]
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], [fro], from [en], from [la]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Foundation .
2. The bottom ; the buttocks or anus .
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1703 | author=Thomas Gibson | title=The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized
|passage=It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the FUNDAMENT, and so
hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.}}
1. * 1861 , Aristotle (pseud.), _Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies._ , page 119
2. *: 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 [...]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1864 | author=Alfred Fennings | title=Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well | page=9
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2008 | author=Eric Summers | title=Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=0BVYlikE-bgC&pg=PA38&dq=fundament | page=38
|passage=I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking
his mouth like it was Hector's FUNDAMENT.}}
1. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system .
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**** Descendants
- [cy]
**** Translations
[foundation]
[anus]
[underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Russian: [ru]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
From [nl], from [nl], [fro], from [nl], from [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[n]
1. basis
2. foundation , basis
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- [nl]
**** Descendants
- [dcr]
- [jvn]
- [id]
- [pap]
** Norwegian Bokmål
*** Etymology
From [nb].
*** Noun
[nb-noun-n3]
1. a foundation
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- [nb]
*** References
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
*** Etymology
From [nn].
*** Noun
[nn-noun-n1]
1. a foundation
**** Related terms
- [nn]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Alternative forms
- [pl]
*** Etymology
[pl].
*** Pronunciation
[a=Pl-fundament.ogg]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. [pl] foundation [lowest and supporting part or member of a wall]
2. [pl] base , basis , foundation
**** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-m-in]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro]. [ro].
*** Noun
[n]
1. foundation
**** Declension
[ro-noun-n]