fons
- plural offon
fons
- third-personsingularsimplepresentindicative offon
Inherited fromLatinfundus.
fons m (invariable)
- bottom(lowest part)
- background(part of picture)
fons
- second-personsingularpresentindicative offondre
FromProto-Italic*fontis, from earlier*θontis, from aProto-Indo-European root cognate withSanskritधन्वति(dhanvati,“flows, runs”), perhaps fromProto-Indo-European*dʰónh₂-ti-s, from*dʰenh₂-(“to flow”).
fōns m (genitivefontis);third declension
- waterissuing from theground, aspring
- (poetic, usually in theplural) the water or waters of ariver,sea etc.
- (by metonymy) awell,fountain orfont(a large container where water pools)
- (Christianity) thebaptismal font(apool or basin of water used forbaptism)
- (by extension) theorigin orsource of a river(also figuratively)
- thefoundation,basicprinciple,cause
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
- “fons”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fons”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "fons", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fons inGaffiot, 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 orfontes non videre)
- these things have the same origin:haec ex eodem fonte fluunt, manant
- source, origin:fons et caput (vid. sect. III., notecaput...)
- “fons”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fons”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
FromOld Occitan, fromLatinfundus.
fons m
- bottom (lowest part)
FromLatinfundus.
fons m (pluralfons)
- (Surmiran)field,land,soil,ground.
