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{{also|Found.}}
==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|found}}, {{IPA|en|/faʊnd/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-found.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|aʊnd|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
See {{m|en|find}}.

====Verb====
{{head|en|verb form}}

# {{infl of|en|find||ed-form}}

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|past participle}} {{l|en|discovered}}; {{l|en|repertitious}} {{qualifier|by chance or upon advice, obs.}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der2|en|found art|found footage|found literature|found music|found object|found poetry|lost and found|unfound|all found|found money|found sound|found-on|newfound|well-found|found family|found-in}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun|-}}

# Food and lodging; [[board]].
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=1872
|year_published=2009
|edition=HTML
|editor=
|author=James De Mille
|title=The Cryptogram
|chapter=
|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/4/3/28435/28435-h/28435-h.htm
|genre=
|publisher=The Gutenberg Project
|isbn=
|page=
|passage=I'll only give you the usual payment—say five hundred dollars a year, and '''found'''." / "And—what?" / "'''Found'''—that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also.
}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1985|author=w:Cormac McCarthy|title=w:Blood Meridian|page=5|passage=He moves north through small settlements and farms, working for day wages and '''found'''.}}

===Etymology 2===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*ǵʰewd-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|founden}}, from {{der|en|fro|founder}} (Modern French: {{m|fr|fonder}}), from {{der|en|la|fundō|fundāre}}. Compare {{m|en|fund}}.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}} {{tlb|en|transitive}}

# {{senseid|en|start}} To [[start]] (an [[institution]] or [[organization]]).
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1913|author=[[w:Robert Barr (writer)|Robert Barr]]
|title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
|chapter=4|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1796924W
|passage=“{{...}} That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he '''founded'''.&nbsp;&hellip;”}}
# To [[begin]] [[building]]. {{rfex|en}}
# {{senseid|en|base}} To use as a [[foundation]]; to [[base]].
#* {{RQ:Moore Zeluco|volume=I|page=203|passage=Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs to '''found''' any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Alexander Dirom|[Alexander] Dirom]]|title=Remarks on Free Trade, and on the State of the British Empire|location=Edinburgh|publisher={{...|Printed for}} Cadell & Co.,{{nb...|10, Prince’s Street}}, Edinburgh; and [[w:Longman|Longman, Rees, & Co.]], London|year=1827|page=36|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6JbPK4HHsHAC&pg=PA36|passage={{...}} being now out of print, I shall use the freedom to give an extract from it, and in an Appendix to this Pamphlet (No. II.), republish one of the Tables that Author refers to, which will shew the facts he '''founded''' his reasoning upon, and the nature of the deductions which were the result of his researches.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=In the House of Lords. Supplemental Case on Behalf of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, on His Claim to the Dignity of Lord Kinloss in the Peerage of Scotland.|year=1867|page=13|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dcNAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA13|passage=His Heir of Line in 1785 claimed the Dignity of Lord Spynie, '''founding''' the claim upon the Charter of 1590, but it being certain that a Dignity of the Peerage of Scotland could not, at least in the reign of James the Sixth, be granted by a Charter making no reference to a Seat in Parliament or the Dignity of a Lord of Parliament, Counsel abandoned the claim under the Charter and insisted that the other evidence sufficiently supported the claim of the Heir of Line.}}

=====Conjugation=====
{{en-conj|old=1}}

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|to start organization}} {{l|en|establish}}

=====Antonyms=====
* {{antsense|to begin building}} {{l|en|ruin}}
* {{antsense|to start organization}} {{l|en|dissolve}}, {{l|en|abolish}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der2|en|new-founded}}

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|en|foundation}}
* {{l|en|founder}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to start an organization}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|أَسَّسَ}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|հիմնադրել}}, {{t+|hy|ստեղծել}}, {{t+|hy|հիմնել}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|засно́ўваць|impf}}, {{t|be|заснава́ць|pf}}, {{t|be|заклада́ць|impf}}, {{t|be|закла́сці|pf}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|учредявам|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|bg|създавам|sc=Cyrl}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|fundar}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|設立|tr=shèlì}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|založit}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|grundlægge}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|stichten}}
* Egyptian: {{t-egy|grg|h=g:r-grg}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|fondi}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|perustaa}}
* French: {{t+|fr|fonder}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|დაფუძვნება}}
* German: {{t+|de|gründen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|ιδρύω}}, {{t+|el|συστήνω}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|alapít}}, {{t+|hu|megalapít}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|fondare}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|興す|tr=okosu}}, {{t+|ja|打ち立てる|tr=uchitateru}}, {{t+|ja|設立|alt=設立する|tr=setsuritsu suru}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|បង្កើត|tr=bɑŋkaət|sc=Khmr}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|설립하다}}, {{t+|ko|수립하다}}
* Latin: {{t|la|fundō}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|dibināt}}
* Norwegian: {{t|no|grunnlegge}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|fondar}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|ġegrundweallian}}, {{t|ang|staþolian}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|założyć}}, {{t+|pl|zakładać}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|fundar}}
* Quechua: {{t|qu|tiqsiy}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|întemeia}}, {{t+|ro|fonda}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|осно́вывать|impf}}, {{t+|ru|основа́ть|pf}}, {{t+|ru|учрежда́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|учреди́ть|pf}}
* Scots: {{t|sco|foond}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|stèidhich}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|založiť}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|fundar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|grunda}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|kurmak}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|засно́вувати|impf}}, {{t|uk|заснува́ти|pf}}, {{t|uk|осно́вувати|impf}}, {{t|uk|оснува́ти|pf}}
* Volapük: {{t-needed|vo}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|אַוועקשטעלן}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to begin building}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|أَسَّسَ}}
* Armenian: {{t|hy|հիմքը դնել}}, {{t+|hy|հիմքը գցել}}
* Aromanian: {{t|rup|fundedz}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|основавам|sc=Cyrl}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|fundar}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|成立|tr=chénglì}}, {{t+|cmn|創設|tr=chuàngshè}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|založit}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|grundlægge}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|perustaa}}
* French: {{t+|fr|fonder}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|საფუძვლის ჩაყრა}}, {{t|ka|დაფუძვნება}}
* German: {{t+|de|errichten}}, {{t+|de|gründen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|θεμελιώνω}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|fondare}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|基礎|alt=基礎を築く|tr=kiso wo kizuku}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|បង្កើត|tr=bɑŋkaət|sc=Khmr}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|설립하다}}
* Ngazidja Comorian: {{t|zdj|tsenga|alt=utsenga}}
* Norwegian: {{t|no|grunnlegge}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|astemnian}}, {{t|ang|gegrundweallian}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|budować}}, {{t+|pl|zbudować}}, {{t+|pl|tworzyć}}, {{t+|pl|stworzyć}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|fundar}}
* Quechua: {{t|qu|tiksiy}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|funda}}, {{t+|ro|întemeia}}, {{t+|ro|înființa}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|осно́вывать|impf}}, {{t+|ru|основа́ть|pf}}
* Scots: {{t|sco|foond}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|založiť}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|fundar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|grundlägga}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|temel atmak}}
* Volapük: {{t-needed|vo}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Esperanto: {{t+check|eo|fondi}}
* Estonian: {{t-check|et|asutama}}
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t+check|sh|osnovati}}
* Spanish: {{t+check|es|fundar}}, {{t+check|es|instaurar}}
* Swedish: {{t+check|sv|grunda}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====References====
* Oxford Online Dictionary, found
* WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton University

===Etymology 3===
From {{inh|en|enm|founden}}, from {{der|en|fro|fondre}}, from {{der|en|la|fundō|fundere}}. Cognate with {{cog|es|fundir}} and {{m|es|hundir}}, and {{cog|fr|fondre}}.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}} {{tlb|en|transitive}}

# {{senseid|en|melt}} To [[melt]], especially of [[metal]] or [[glass]] in an [[industry|industrial]] setting.
# To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to [[cast]].
#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=6|passage=Whereof to '''found''' their engines.|year=1873}}

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|en|confound}}
* {{l|en|foundry}}
* {{l|en|foison}}
* {{l|en|fusion}}
* {{l|en|morfound}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-see|melt}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun|!}}

# {{lb|en|glassblowing}} The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.

===Etymology 4===
{{rfe|en}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# A thin, single-cut [[file]] for [[comb]]-makers.

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=dfnou|fondu}}

{{cln|en|irregular past participles|irregular simple past forms}}