fondamento

noun

1. A quay along an Italian waterway.

   That view up the fondamento is at all times one of the loveliest aspects of the lovely little island town, but in the month of May a strange enchantment is added.

2. An instrumental bass part that forms the basis of the melody, and against which other instruments provide harmony.

   John Frederick Peter, born in 1746, left behind him an ambitious work, dated 1763, entitled Partitur einer Freuden Music zum Friedens Dank Feste, scored for four-part chorus and strings, two flutes, two trumpets and fondamento."

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian fondamento (“foundation”). By surface analysis, fond (“background”) + Italian -amento. Doublet of fundament.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry fondamento (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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