fontana

See also: fontána

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

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
• Asturian: fontana
• Belarusian: фантан ‎(fantan)
• Breton: feunteun
• Catalan: fontana
• Czech: fontána
• Corsican: funtana
• Dutch: fontein
• English: fountain
• French: fontaine
• Friulian: fontane
• Italian: fontana
• Ladin: funtana
• Lithuanian: fontanas

• Norwegian: fontene
• Polish: fontanna
• Portuguese: fontana
• Romanian: fântână
• Romansch: funtauna
• Russian: фонтан ‎(fontan)
• Sardinian: fantana, funtana
• Serbo-Croatian: fontana
• Sicilian: funtana
• Slovak: fontána
• Spanish: hontana, fontana
• Swedish: fontän
• Ukrainian: фонтан ‎(fontan)

References

• fontana in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• FONTANA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fontana in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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