enfoncer
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to push in, to press in, to drive in
- (transitive) to break open, to break down
- (transitive) to defeat, to thrash
- (intransitive) to sink down
- (reflexive) to bury oneself; to immerse oneself
Etymology
Affix from French fond (bottom).
Origin
French
fond
Gloss
bottom
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
底
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Fond du Lac English
- fund English
- fundus Latin
- Fond German
- arrière-fond French
- enfoncement French
- enfonceur French
- foncier French
- fond French
- plafond French
- renfoncement French
- renfoncer French
- фон Russian
- fond Norwegian Bokmål
- fond Swedish
- fond Norwegian Nynorsk
- fond Danish
- fond Czech
- fond Serbo-Croatian
- fond Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- phông Vietnamese
- Fong Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- fon Haitian, Haitian Creole