fons

See also: föns, Föns, and føns

English

Noun

fons

1. plural of fon

Verb

fons

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fon

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Catalan

Etymology

From , from Latin fundus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfons]

Noun

fons m (invariable)

1. bottom (lowest part)

Related terms

• fundar

Verb

fons

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Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European root cognate with Sanskrit धन्वति (dhanvati, “flows, runs”), perhaps *dʰenh₂- (“to flow”). See also Danube.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fons/, [fõːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fons/, [fɔns]

Noun

fōns m (genitive fontis); third declension

1. a spring, a fountain

   Quaesitum ad fontem solos deducere verpos.

   To guide only the circumcised to a sought fountain. —Juvenal, Satira XIV.104

2. fresh water, spring water
3. (by extension) an origin, a source

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fōns	fontēs
Genitive	fontis	fontium
Dative	fontī	fontibus
Accusative	fontem	fontēs fontīs
Ablative	fonte	fontibus
Vocative	fōns	fontēs

Derived terms

• fontanus
• fontana
• fonticulus

Descendants

• Aragonese: fuent
• Asturian: fonte, fuente
• Catalan: font
• English: font, fount
• Extremaduran: fuenti, huenti
• Franco-Provençal: font
• French: fonts
• Friulian: font
• Galician: fonte
• Italian: fonte
• Leonese: fonte
• Mirandese: fuonte
• Occitan: font
• Portuguese: fonte
• Romanian: fântână
• Sicilian: fonti, funti
• Spanish: fuente
• Venetian: fontego

References

• “fons”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fons”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fons in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fons in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to draw from the fountain-head: e fontibus haurire (opp. rivulos consectari or fontes non videre)
    
  • these things have the same origin: haec ex eodem fonte fluunt, manant
    
  • source, origin: fons et caput (vid. sect. III., note caput...)
    
• “fons”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fons”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin fundus.

Noun

fons m

1. bottom (lowest part)

Related terms

• fondar

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) funs
• (Sutsilvan) fùns
• (Puter) fuonz
• (Vallader) fuond

Etymology

From Latin fundus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.

Noun

fons m (plural fons)

1. (Surmiran) field#English, land, soil, ground.