• fondir

• IPA^(key): [funˈdiɾ]

Attested since the 13th century (fondir), from Latin fundō.

fundir (first-person singular present fundo, first-person singular preterite fundín, past participle fundido)
fundir (first-person singular present fundo, first-person singular preterite fundim or fundi, past participle fundido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to smelt
   • 1289, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 114:

     os ouriuez non deuen a fondir moeda nihua que seja, saluo sua prata quando lle seyr salagre

     the goldsmiths shall not smelt any coin whatsoever, except of their silver when it results brittle

2. to fuse
3. to sink
4. to spread

   Synonym: cundir

5. to yield

   Synonym: cundir

fundir (first-person singular present fundo, third-person singular present fonde, first-person singular preterite fundín, past participle fundido)

1. (intransitive) to drag out, to go slowly (of time)
2. (intransitive) to suit

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “fundir”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fundir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “fundir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fundir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fundir”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

fundir

1. indefinite nominative plural of fundur

fundir

1. nominative plural of fundr

From Latin fundō, from Proto-Italic *hundō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd-.

• Hyphenation: fun‧dir

fundir (first-person singular present fundo, first-person singular preterite fundi, past participle fundido)

1. to smelt
2. to fuse
3. (reflexive, of light bulbs) to burn out

• “fundir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “fundir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin fundere. Doublet of hundir (“to sink”). Cognate with English found (“to melt”) and fuse.

• IPA^(key): /funˈdiɾ/ [fũn̪ˈd̪iɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: fun‧dir

fundir (first-person singular present fundo, first-person singular preterite fundí, past participle fundido)

1. to smelt, to cast

   fundir estatuas ― to cast statues

2. to melt

   Synonym: derretir

3. to fade, to merge, to fuse
4. (colloquial) to waste

   Synonyms: gastar, despilfarrar

5. (obsolete) to sink

   Synonyms: hundir, sumir

6. (reflexive, Mexico) to burn out (of lightbulbs and similar light-producing devices)

• “fundir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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