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fons

See also: fōns, föns, føns, Föns, and Fons

English

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Noun

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fons

  1. plural of fon

Verb

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fons

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fon

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin fundus.

Noun

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fons m (invariable)

  1. bottom (lowest part)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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fons

  1. second-person singular present indicative of fondre

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *fontis, from earlier *θontis, from a Proto-Indo-European root cognate with Sanskrit धन्वति (dhanvati, “flows, runs”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dʰónh₂-ti-s, from *dʰenh₂- (“to flow”). See also Danube.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fōns m (genitive fontis); third declension

  1. water issuing from the ground, a spring
  2. (poetic, usually in the plural) the water or waters of a river, sea etc.
  3. (by metonymy) a well, fountain or font (a large container where water pools)
    1. (Christianity) the baptismal font (a pool or basin of water used for baptism)
  4. (by extension) the origin or source of a river (also figuratively)
    1. the foundation, basic principle, cause

Declension

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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

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Descendants

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References

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Further reading

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  • “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

Occitan

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan, from Latin fundus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fons m

  1. bottom (lowest part)
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Descendants

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Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin fundus.

Noun

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fons m (plural fons)

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