fontana

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin fontana < Latin fontanus < fons.

Noun

fontana f. (plural fontane)

1. fountain
2. source, spring

Synonyms

• fonte (2)
• sorgente (2)

Derived terms

• fontanazzo
• fontanella
• fontaniere
• fontanile

Related terms

• fonte

Anagrams

• tanfano

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Latin

Etymology

Found in Vulgar Latin and Late Latin. From Classical Latin fontanus (“of a spring”), from fons (“spring”), fontis.

Noun

fontana

1. spring, fountain, source

Descendants

Afrikaans: fontein Aromanian: fãntãnã Belarusian: фантан Breton: feunteun Croatian: fontana Czech: fontána Dutch: fontein English: fountain French: fontaine Italian: fontana

Lithuanian: fontanas Norwegian: fontene Polish: fontanna Romanian: fântână Romansch: funtauna Russian: фонтан Slovak: fontána Spanish: hontana Swedish: fontän Ukrainian: фонтан

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fǒntaːna/
• Hyphenation: fon‧ta‧na

Noun

fòntāna f. (Cyrillic spelling фо̀нта̄на)

1. fountain (artificial water feature)

Declension

    declension of fontana

	singular	plural
nominative	fontana	fontane
genitive	fontane	fontana
dative	fontani	fontanama
accusative	fontanu	fontane
vocative	fontano	fontane
locative	fontani	fontanama
instrumental	fontanom	fontanama