fondre
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to melt, melt down, smelt
- (intransitive) to melt
- (intransitive) to melt away, waste away
- (intransitive) to dwindle; to diminish
- (reflexive) to blend in, blend into
Etymology
Inherited from Old French fondre inherited from Latin fundere inherited from Proto-Italic *hundō derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (pour).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰewd-
Gloss
pour
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- confuse English
- foundation English
- foundry English
- intrafusion English
- refuse English
- transfuse English
- confundō Latin
- diffūsus Latin
- fundere Latin
- fundo Latin
- fundus Latin
- fundō Latin
- fūsiōnem Latin
- fūsus Latin
- gutta Latin
- infundō Latin
- infusus Latin
- fondere Italian
- fonderia Italian
- fondibile Italian
- rifondere Italian
- trasfondere Italian
- fonderie French
- fondeur French
- refondre French
- hundir Spanish, Castilian
- *ǵʰewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *geutaną Proto-Germanic
- *gut- Proto-Germanic
- *gutō Proto-Germanic
- gutten Middle English
- refunden Middle English
- gusa Old Norse
- fondre Old French
- fandi Esperanto
- fandiĝi Esperanto
- fando Esperanto
- fondre Catalan, Valencian
- guz Old High German
- *hundō Proto-Italic
- fondi Friulian
- *kawte urj-fpr-pro