fund

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌnd

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.

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.

• fun, funn — Gheg [fũn] ^[1]

Borrowed from Latin fundus.

• IPA^(key): [fund]

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

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

• fundërri (Tosk) ^[2]
• fundi (Tosk), funi (Gheg)
• fundit (Tosk), funit (Gheg)
• fundor (Tosk), funor (Gheg)

• fundu, afundu

fund n

1. Alternative form of fundu

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔnˀ]

fund n (singular definite fundet, plural indefinite fund)

1. find
2. bargain
3. discovery

fund

1. indefinite accusative singular of fundur

fund (plural fundes)

1. Alternative form of feend

fund

1. accusative/dative singular of fundr

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

• IPA^(key): [fund]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

fund n (plural funduri)

1. bottom

   Synonym: străfund

2. backside; buttocks

   Synonyms: posterior, șezut, dos, popou, cur

3. chopping board

   Synonym: tocător

• fundaș

• bucă

• fund in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)