fund

See also: Fund

English

Etymology
PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

Borrowed from French fond, from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond and fundus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfʌnd/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌnd

Noun

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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Translations

Verb

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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Translations

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fundus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [fund]

Noun

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

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

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

Derived terms

References
  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

Alternative forms

Noun

fund n

  1. Alternative form of fundu

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈfɔnˀ]

Noun

fund n (singular definite fundet, plural indefinite fund)

  1. find
  2. bargain
  3. discovery

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

Icelandic

Noun

fund

  1. indefinite accusative singular of fundur

Middle English

Noun

fund (plural fundes)

  1. Alternative form of feend

Old Norse

Noun

fund

  1. accusative/dative singular of fundr

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [fund]
  • Audio(file)
  • Audio(file)

Noun

fund n (plural funduri)

  1. bottom
  2. backside; buttocks

Declension
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

Derived terms

See also

References
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