fundação

Learned borrowing from Latin fundātiōnem. By surface analysis, fundar +‎ -ção.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: fun‧da‧ção

fundação f (plural fundações)

1. foundation (act of founding)
2. (architecture, chiefly in the plural) foundation (lowest and supporting part or member of a wall)

   Synonym: alicerce

3. foundation (endowed institution or charity)

• “fundação” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913