fonder : v.tr. (word from latin fundare, fundus : background).
The verb “found” has several meanings:
1. Concrete (rare): To base (something) on: establish on foundations (a work of which we undertake the costs).
– Quote from the French writer Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850): “He founded the kiosk on a solid concrete base so that there would be no humidity”.
By literary metaphor: build.
– Quote from the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869): “I melted on the sand and I sowed on the wave”.
2. Common meaning: Take the initiative to to build (a city), to edify (a artwork) by doing the first establishment work (create).
Romulus, according to traditional, founded Rome in 753 BC. J.-C.
Found a school (open).
Found a ordre religious, a sect (establish), a party (form), a Company (constitute).
Specially: Founding a foyer, a in family : Is marry, to have some children.
Figurative meaning: Founding a science, a literary school.
Right-footed (foundation).
Found a bed in a hospital, a price.
3. To base (something) on: establish on a basis) (sit, base).
Found your pouvoir on strength.
– Quote from the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867): “We can found glorious empires on crime, and noble religions on imposture”.
It is on this does that he bases his claims, his hopes.
Pronominal verb: What are you basing your decision on? to affirm that ? (s'support).
story based on documents authenticity .
Aged meaning: Found in: founded on.
Modern meaning: This is founded in right.
To place, to put in someone (a belief).
I founded great hopes on him.
4. Provide a foundation rational.
Constitute the foundation to (justify, motivate).
This is what bases the claim.
This usage cannot found a right.
– Quote from the French writer, philologist, philosopher, epigraphist and historian Ernest Renan (1823-1892): “We can imagine a time when force truly establishes the reign of reason.”
In the past tense and the past participle: (the thing having received its foundation:
A partner well or poorly founded.
A reproach, a well-founded rumor.
This is an interpretation that seems to me to be well-founded (fair, legitimate, reasonable, valid).
People: To be justified in (and infinitive): to have good reasons for.
To be justified in believing, in claiming something.
Must: Be authorized representative (proxy).