hondo

Signification

Adj

1. deep
2. profound

Adv

deeply

Coupé comme

hon‧do

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈondo/

Étymologie

Inherited from Old Spanish fondo, from Latin fundus, with the Latin noun taking on an adjectival sense in Spanish.
PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn
An alternative theory sees the Old Spanish fondo as a shortening of an earlier, pre-literary *perfondo, from the Latin adjective profundus instead, which matches with the sense of the word better; however, this is uncertain. The word profundo is a neologism later borrowed from Latin. Cf. also the Spanish noun fondo (“bottom”), which may have preserved the old initial 'f' to distinguish it from the adjective hondo, its doublet.