The corpus record — Latin

fundamen

fundamen · n

a foundation

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Where it lives

Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.39/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k

What it meant

fundāmen — Lewis & Short

fundāmen, ĭnis, n.2. fundo,

I a foundation (poet. for the class. fundamentum; mostly in plur.): ponere fundamina, Verg. G. 4, 161: Siculae terrae, Ov. M. 5, 361: rerum, id. ib. 15, 433; id. F. 4, 835.—In sing.: fundamine magno res Romana valet, Ov. M. 14, 808; Hier. Gal. 4, 1; 2.

In the wild

fundamina Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.433
fundamina Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.361
fundamina Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.347
fundamine Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.825
fundamine Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.808
fundamina Ovid, Fasti 4.835

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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