fundamento
Portuguese, noun/fũ.daˈmẽ.tu/
fundamento is spelled F-U-N-D-A-M-E-N-T-O (10 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,015th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fundamento is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “foundation (that upon which anything is founded)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of fundamentar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “alicerce, base”.
What does fundamento mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefoundation (that upon which anything is founded)
- 2
masculinethe act of founding, establishing
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of fundamentar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. alicerce, base 2. fundo, profundeza 3. razão, motivo 4. básico, elementar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fundamento
- fundamentos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fundamento?
- Brazil /fũ.daˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /fũ.dɐˈmẽ.tu/
- Portugal /fũ.dɐ.ˈmẽ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fundamento
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fundamento in Portuguese?
fundamento appears 7.6 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).