Provided money to pay for or support something.
From Latin 'fundus' meaning bottom or foundation. The word evolved to mean a sum of money (the 'foundation' of an enterprise), then the verb 'to fund' emerged.
A 'fund' was originally just a pile of money sitting at the bottom of a vault—the Latin root literally means the bottom or foundation of something, and money is the foundation of projects!
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