infundado

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-lbor.

Portuguese in-

Portuguese fundado

Portuguese infundado

From in- + fundado.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.fũˈda.du/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.fũˈda.du/ [ĩ.fũˈda.ðu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.fũˈda.du/ [ĩ.fũˈda.ðu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.fũˈda.du/

• Hyphenation: in‧fun‧da‧do

Adjective

infundado (feminine infundada, masculine plural infundados, feminine plural infundadas)

1. unfounded (not based on solid reasons or facts)

Further reading

• “infundado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-lbor.

Spanish in-

Spanish fundado

Spanish infundado

From in- + fundado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /infunˈdado/ [ĩɱ.fũn̪ˈd̪a.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: in‧fun‧da‧do

Adjective

infundado (feminine infundada, masculine plural infundados, feminine plural infundadas)

1. unfounded

   acusación infundada ― unfounded accusation

Related terms

• infundio

Further reading

• “infundado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026