English → Latin
“found” in Latin
pōnōto place; to put; to lay; to ordain; to appoint; to make (something); to set up; to pitch (camp)condōto put together; to build, establish; form, fashion; make, construct; to put away, store or treasure up; preserve; interīnstituōto set up, establish, found, institute or arrange; to train, teach, instruct, educate (usually by a course of training);stabiliōto make firm, confirm, stay, support, hold still, stabilize; to establish, fix, make secure, confirmcōnstituōto place, put, locate, lay; to set up, establish, constitute, found; to build, erect, constructliquefaciōto melt or liquefy; to dissolveliquōto melt, liquefy; to filter, strain; to clarify, simplifycōnflōto kindle (a fire); to forge, fuse or melt (metal); to refine or purify
The English word found itself goes back to Latin fundō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
found v.
To lay the foundation of anything, fundamenta locare (only absolutely): fundamenta alicujus rei jacere or (seldom) ponere (PROP. and figuratively): fundamenta alicui rei fodere (to dig the ground up for that purpose: ☞ fundare is only used in prose for “making firm and stable” something of which the foundations have been already laid): initia alicujus rei ponere: prima initia alicujus rei inchoare or ponere (figuratively): aliquid pro fundamento ponere (i. e., to lay anything as or for a foundation): condere: instituere (to found in a wider sense; to establish): stabilire (to make firm): constituere (to found, with accessory notion of regularity, firmness). To found an empire, imperium constituere or condere (not imperium fundare, which conveys the meaning of “giving stability’): to found a state, civitatem or rempublicam constituere: to found a new state, novas res condere: to found a town, urbem condere or constituere: to found anything at a place, aliquid exstruere, ponere in aliquo loco: to found (e.g., a school, a sect), fundare disciplinam: he sent ten thousand Athenians to found a colony there, eo decem millia Atheniensium in coloniam misit (Cic., Nep.): to be founded on anything (of notions, persuasions, etc.), niti aliqua re or in aliqua re; also, niti fundamento alicujus rei (to rest upon it as its foundation); teneri or contineri aliqua re (to be held together by it); cerni or positum esse in aliqua re (to rest on it).
To melt and cast metals, liquefacere: liquare (to make fluid; e.g., bronze, etc.): conflare (to melt down; e.g., victorias aureas; i. e., the gold statues of the Goddess of Victory). Vid: also, To FUSE, To CAST.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for found?
- The usual Latin words for “found” are pōnō, condō, īnstituō; also stabiliō, cōnstituō, liquefaciō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.