font
English
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Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒnt
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Etymology 1
From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fons, fontis (“fountain”).
Noun
font (plural fonts)
- A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism
- A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
- (figuratively) spring, source, fountain
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
Translations
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).
Alternative forms
- fount (UK)
Noun
font (plural fonts)
- (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- (computing) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
Derived terms
Translations
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Descendants
- Thai: ฟอนต์ (fɔ́n)
References
- “font” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. →ISBN.
Etymology 3
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
Noun
font (plural fonts)
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
- A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
The arts of which these lands were once the font
- A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
- 1910 — Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II
- As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
- 1915 — Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address
- I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
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Noun
font m (plural fonts)
- fountain
- source (of water)
- source (origin)
- (journalism) source
Synonyms
(fountain): fontana
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “font” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
Verb
font
Friulian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
font m (plural fonts)
- bottom
- background
- landed property, farm
- fund
Related terms
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From German Pfund, from Latin pondo.[1]
Noun
font (plural fontok)
- pound (weight)
- pound (currency unit)
- Synonym: font sterling
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | font | fontok |
accusative | fontot | fontokat |
dative | fontnak | fontoknak |
instrumental | fonttal | fontokkal |
causal-final | fontért | fontokért |
translative | fonttá | fontokká |
terminative | fontig | fontokig |
essive-formal | fontként | fontokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | fontban | fontokban |
superessive | fonton | fontokon |
adessive | fontnál | fontoknál |
illative | fontba | fontokba |
sublative | fontra | fontokra |
allative | fonthoz | fontokhoz |
elative | fontból | fontokból |
delative | fontról | fontokról |
ablative | fonttól | fontoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
fonté | fontoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
fontéi | fontokéi |
Possessive forms of font | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | fontom | fontjaim |
2nd person sing. | fontod | fontjaid |
3rd person sing. | fontja | fontjai |
1st person plural | fontunk | fontjaink |
2nd person plural | fontotok | fontjaitok |
3rd person plural | fontjuk | fontjaik |
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fundō (“I melt”).[1]
Noun
font (plural fontok)
- (typography) digital font (set of glyphs of unified design contained in a computer file)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | font | fontok |
accusative | fontot | fontokat |
dative | fontnak | fontoknak |
instrumental | fonttal | fontokkal |
causal-final | fontért | fontokért |
translative | fonttá | fontokká |
terminative | fontig | fontokig |
essive-formal | fontként | fontokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | fontban | fontokban |
superessive | fonton | fontokon |
adessive | fontnál | fontoknál |
illative | fontba | fontokba |
sublative | fontra | fontokra |
allative | fonthoz | fontokhoz |
elative | fontból | fontokból |
delative | fontról | fontokról |
ablative | fonttól | fontoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
fonté | fontoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
fontéi | fontokéi |
Possessive forms of font | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | fontom | fontjaim |
2nd person sing. | fontod | fontjaid |
3rd person sing. | fontja | fontjai |
1st person plural | fontunk | fontjaink |
2nd person plural | fontotok | fontjaitok |
3rd person plural | fontjuk | fontjaik |
Etymology 3
Verb
font
- third-person singular indicative past indefinite of fon
- (deprecated template usage) past participle of fon
- Synonym: fonott (in certain senses)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2)
Noun
font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fonter, definite plural fontene)
- a baptismal font
- (typography) font, or fount (UK)
References
- “font” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2)
Noun
font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fontar, definite plural fontane)
- a baptismal font
- (typography) font, or fount (UK)
References
- “font” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
font c
- (typography) a font
Usage notes
- The synonym teckensnitt is considered more correct.
Declension
Declension of font | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | font | fonten | fonter | fonterna |
Genitive | fonts | fontens | fonters | fonternas |
Synonyms
- English 1-syllable words
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- English terms inherited from Old English
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- English terms borrowed from Middle French
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- en:Typography
- en:Computing
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
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- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- ca:Mass media
- French 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:French/ɔ̃
- French non-lemma forms
- French verb forms
- Friulian terms inherited from Latin
- Friulian terms derived from Latin
- Friulian lemmas
- Friulian nouns
- Friulian masculine nouns
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hungarian terms derived from German
- Hungarian terms derived from Latin
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- hu:Typography
- Hungarian non-lemma forms
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- hu:Computing
- hu:Currency
- hu:Units of measure
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from French
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- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
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- nb:Typography
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin
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- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from French
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
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- nn:Typography
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Typography