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fund

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Etymology

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PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

Borrowed from Latin fundus.[1] Doublet of fond and fundus.

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Noun

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fund (plural funds)

  1. A sum or source of money.
    the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
    a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
  2. An organization managing such money.
  3. A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
    Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
  4. A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
    He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
    • 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
      an inexhaustible fund of stories
    • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
      He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun.

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Verb

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fund (third-person singular simple present funds, present participle funding, simple past and past participle funded)

  1. (transitive) To pay or provide money for.
    He used his inheritance to fund his gambling addiction.
  2. (transitive) To place (money) in a fund.
  3. (transitive) To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.

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  1. ^ “fund, n.1”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Albanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin fundus.

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Noun

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fund m (plural funde, definite fundi, definite plural fundet)

  1. end
  2. bottom (lowest part)
  3. skirt

Declension

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Declension of fund
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fund fundi funde fundet
accusative fundin
dative fundi fundit fundeve fundeve
ablative fundesh

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  1. ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 33, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
  2. ^ Dictionnaire Français-Albanais / Fjalor Shqip-Frengjisht, page 462, Vedat Kokona, Tiranë, 2002, →ISBN

Aromanian

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fund n

  1. Alternative form of fundu

Danish

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Etymology

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Verbal noun to finde (“to find”). Compare Old Norse fundr and German Fund.

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Noun

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fund n (singular definite fundet, plural indefinite fund)

  1. find
  2. bargain
  3. discovery

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Declension of fund
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fund fundet fund fundene
genitive funds fundets funds fundenes

Icelandic

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fund

  1. indefinite accusative singular of fundur

Middle English

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fund (plural fundes)

  1. Alternative form of feend

Old Norse

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fund

  1. accusative/dative singular of fundr

Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond, which was borrowed from French.

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fund n (plural funduri)

  1. bottom
    Synonym: străfund
  2. backside; buttocks
    Synonyms: posterior, șezut, dos, popou, cur
  3. chopping board
    Synonym: tocător

Declension

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Declension of fund
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) fund fundul (niște) funduri fundurile
genitive/dative (unui) fund fundului (unor) funduri fundurilor
vocative fundule fundurilor

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