fundamental
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Late Latin fundamentālis, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the foundation (of something), to found”), from fundus (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.
fundamental (plural fundamentals)
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fundamental (comparative more fundamental, superlative most fundamental)
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fundamental
| Inflection of fundamental | |||
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| Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
| Indefinte common singular | fundamental | — | —2 |
| Indefinite neuter singular | fundamentalt | — | —2 |
| Plural | fundamentale | — | —2 |
| Definite attributive1 | fundamentale | — | — |
| 1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. | |||
From Latin fundāmentālis. By surface analysis, fundamento + -al.
fundamental m or f (plural fundamentais)
Borrowed from Latin fundāmentālis. By surface analysis, Fundament + -al.
fundamental (strong nominative masculine singular fundamentaler, comparative fundamentaler, superlative am fundamentalsten)
Borrowed from English fundamental, from Late Latin fundamentālis, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the foundation (of something), to found”), from fundus (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.
fundamental
From Latin fundamentalis.
fundamental (masculine and feminine fundamental, neuter fundamentalt, definite singular and plural fundamentale)
From Latin fundamentalis.
fundamental (neuter fundamentalt, definite singular and plural fundamentale)
Borrowed from Latin fundāmentālis.
fundamental m or f (plural fundamentais)
Borrowed from French fondamental, from Latin fundamentalis. Equivalent to fundament + -al.
fundamental m or n (feminine singular fundamentală, masculine plural fundamentali, feminine and neuter plural fundamentale)
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | fundamental | fundamentală | fundamentali | fundamentale | ||
| definite | fundamentalul | fundamentala | fundamentalii | fundamentalele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | fundamental | fundamentale | fundamentali | fundamentale | ||
| definite | fundamentalului | fundamentalei | fundamentalelor | fundamentalilor | |||
From Latin fundāmentālis.
fundamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural fundamentales)
fundamental (not comparable)
| Inflection of fundamental | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | fundamental | — | — |
| Neuter singular | fundamentalt | — | — |
| Plural | fundamentala | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | fundamentale | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | fundamentale | — | — |
| All | fundamentala | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||