PIE *bhudh, bottom, foundation が語源で、bottom, founder と同じ。 経済学の名詞 fund として使われる。ファイナンスを比較する。
英語の語源
fund
fund: [17] Latin fundus meant ‘bottom’. English originally acquired it via French as fond, and in the course of the 17th century re-latinized it to fund. The literal meaning ‘bottom’ was retained until the mid 18th century (‘a Glass-Bubble fix’d to the Fund of a Vessel’, British Apollo 1709), but gradually it gave way to the metaphorical ‘basic supply, particularly of money’. From fundus was derived the Latin verb fundāre ‘lay the bottom for, establish’ (source of English found), and the next step on from this was the noun fundāmentum ‘bottom part, foundation’, which gave English fundament [13] and fundamental [15]. => found, fundament
fund (n.)
1670s, "a bottom, the bottom; foundation, groundwork," from French fond "a bottom, floor, ground" (12c.), also "a merchant's basic stock or capital," from Latin fundus "bottom, foundation, piece of land," from PIE root *bhudh- "bottom, base" (cognates: Sanskrit budhnah, Greek pythmen "foundation, bottom," Old English botm "lowest part;" see bottom (n.)). Meaning "stock of money or wealth available for some purpose" is from 1690s; sense of "store of anything to be drawn upon" is from 1704. Funds "money at one's disposal" is from 1728.
fund (v.)
1776, "convert (a debt) into capital or stock represented by interest-bearing bonds," from fund (n.). Meaning "supply (someone or something) with money, to finance" is from 1900.
例文
1. He 's accused of misusing$17.5 million from a secret government slush fund .
秘密の政府贈賄基金を1750万ドル悪用したと告発された。
2.He is possesed of an extraordinary fund of energy.
彼の精力は異常に充実している。
3.Encourage her to get involved in fund ?raising for charity.
慈善募金活動への参加を奨励した。
4. The fund will make payments of just over ￡1 billion next year.
同基金の来年の支払額はちょうど10億ポンドを超えている。
5.Its$25 m reserve fund had been run down to around$8 m.