Funda, huius fundæ. Virg.A sling.Balearis verbera fundæ.Virg.Cita funda. Tibul. Lata funda. Ouid.Teretes fundæ.Stat. Torta funda. Propert. More fundæ rotare aliquem.Ouid. Funda.Virg.A casting nette. Funda.Macrob.A satchel or purse like a net: a bouget. Funda. Plin. A circle of golde where in stones are so set that they may be seene both aboue and beneath.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
funda, ae, f. [Sanscr. spandē, itch; Gr. sfada/zw, to move convulsively; sfodro/s, sfedano/s, impassioned; sfendo/nh; cf. 3. fūsus], a sling.I.Lit.: funda dicta eo, quod ex ea fundantur lapides, id est emittantur, Isid. Orig. 18, 10, 1: inde fundis, sagittis, tormentis hostes propelli ac summoveri jussit, Caes. B. G. 4, 25, 1; 5, 35fin.; 5, 43, 1; Liv. 38, 29, 4 sq.; Plin. 7, 56, 57, 201; Plaut. Poen. 2, 32 sq.; Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 16; Cic. poët. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 6, 73; Verg. G. 1, 309; id. A. 9, 586; Ov. M. 4, 517 al.—II.Transf.A. That which is thrown with a sling, the sling-stone, missile,, Sil. 10, 152. —B.A casting-net, drag-net, Verg. G. 1, 141.—C. (From the similarity to the hollow of a sling in which the stone lay, like sfendo/nh.) The hollow of a ring in which a jewel is set, the bezel, Plin. 37, 8, 37, 116 (in Cic. Off. 3, 9, 38, called pala anuli).—D.A money-bag, purse, Macr. S. 2, 4 fin.