ground (v.) Copy link • ground (v.): fundo, 1: v. to found, establish. Phr.: to be well g.'d in any branch of knowledge, artem aliquam bene s. penitus perceptam habere, cf. Cic. Fam. 7, 19; artis alicujus praecepta cognita penitusque perspecta habere, cf. Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 92; artem aliquam fideliter didicisse, Ov.: to g. pupils thoroughly in grammar, *grammaticae artis fundamenta bene solideque jacere; discipulos grammaticis rationibus diligenter imbuere.