fundus

PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

From Latin fundus (“bottom”). Doublet of fond and fund.

fundus (plural fundi)

1. (anatomy) The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:
   1. The top, hollow portion of the uterus.
   2. The back, interior part of the eye, accommodating the retina and associated blood vessels, etc.
   3. The uppermost hollow of the stomach, which in humans forms a bulge above where the oesophagus enters the stomach.
   4. The deepest part of a sulcus, such as of the sulci of the human cerebral cortex.

• fundectomy
• fundic
• fundusectomy

fundus

1. conditional of fundi

From Proto-Italic *funðos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-(m)n-o-s, from *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Compare the similar treatment in Ancient Greek πύνδαξ (púndax, “bottom”). Cognates include Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna), Persian بن (bon, “root, bottom”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom”), and Old English botm (English bottom).^[1]

PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.dus/, [ˈfʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.dus/, [ˈfun̪d̪us]

fundus m (genitive fundī); second declension

1. bottom
2. farm, piece of land, estate, demesne
3. ground
4. foundation
5. an authority

Second-declension noun.

• (antonym(s) of “bottom”): vertex

• adfundō
• *affundō
• funditus
• fundō
• fundulus
• profundus

• fundāmen
• fundāmentum
• fundātiō
• fundātor
• fundātus

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: fundu, afundu, fund
  • Romanian: fund
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: fondo
  • Sicilian: funnu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: font, fonz
  • Ladin: fond
  • Ligurian: fondo
  • Lombard: fond, hond
  • Piedmontese: fons
  • Venetan: fondo
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: fons
  • Old French:
    • French: fond (see there for further descendants)
    • → English: fund
  • Occitan: fons
    • → Basque: funts
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: fondu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: fundo, fondo
    • Fala: fundu
    • Galician: fundo, fondo
    • Portuguese: fundo
  • Old Spanish: fondo
    • Spanish: fondo, hondo
      • → Cebuano: pundo
      • → Basque: hondo
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: fundhu, fundu, funnu
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: fund, fun, funn — Gheg
  • → German: Fundus
  • → Polish: fundusz (learned)
    • → Kashubian: fùndusz
  • → Spanish: fundo

• “fundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fundus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fundus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin