Where does “foundry” come from?
Foundry comes from French fonderie, from French fondre meaning to melt or cast, from Latin fundere meaning to pour, combined with Latin -arius forming agent nouns, from Latin fundus meaning bottom or foundation, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰew- meaning to pour.
foundry (English): A facility that melts metals in special furnaces...
Definitions
- A facility that melts metals in special furnaces...
Ancestry of “foundry”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | fonderie | foundry |
| 2 | French | fondre | to melt, melt down, smelt; to melt; to melt away,... |
| 3 | Old French | fondre | to melt |
| 4 | Latin | fundere | second-person singular present passive... |
| 5 | Latin | fundo | I pour out, shed; I rout, scatter; I found, make... |
| 6 | Latin | fundus | bottom; farm; piece of land; estate; ground |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰudʰmḗn | bottom |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewbʰ- | deep |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |
Words derived from “foundry”