fontana

See also: fontána and Fontana

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from fōns. The meaning of fountain, as an artificial installation, may be partly derived from or influenced by the Old French equivalent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fonˈta.na/

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: fon‧tà‧na

Noun

fontana f (plural fontane)

1. fountain
2. source, spring

   Synonym: sorgente

3. a firework that sends relatively slow sparks in the air which then fall down, very much resembling a fountain (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• fontanazzo
• fontanella
• fontaniere
• fontanile

Related terms

• fonte

Anagrams

• tanfano

Latin

Etymology

Substantivation of the feminine of Classical fontānus (“of a spring”), from fōns (“spring”) (or a shortening of the expression fontana aqua).

Noun

fontāna f (genitive fontānae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) spring, fountain, source

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fontāna	fontānae
Genitive	fontānae	fontānārum
Dative	fontānae	fontānīs
Accusative	fontānam	fontānās
Ablative	fontānā	fontānīs
Vocative	fontāna	fontānae

Descendants

• Aromanian: fãntãnã
• Asturian: fontana
• Catalan: fontana
• Corsican: funtana
• Old French: fontaine
  • Middle French: fontaine
    • French: fontaine
      • → Dutch: fontein
        • Afrikaans: fontein
      • → Norwegian: fontene
  • → Middle English:
    • English: fountain
• Friulian: fontane
• ⇒ Galician: fontela
• Italian: fontana
  • → Polish: fontanna
• Ladin: funtana
• Portuguese: fontana
• Romanian: fântână
• Romansch: funtauna
• Sardinian: fantana, funtana
• Sicilian: funtana
• Spanish: hontana, fontana
• → Belarusian: фантан (fantan)
• → Proto-Brythonic: *funtọn (see there for further descendants)
• → Czech: fontána
• → German: Fontäne
• → Lithuanian: fontanas
• → Russian: фонтан (fontan)
• → Serbo-Croatian: fontana
• → Slovak: fontána
• → Swedish: fontän
• → Ukrainian: фонтан (fontan)

References

• “fontana”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fontana 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)
• fontana in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from fōns; this form was probably derived from or influenced by Old French (as evidenced by an older Spanish variant fontaina). Cf. also the form hontana, which may have been more popular. It is still found as a popular or inherited element in some geographical place names and some derivative forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fonˈtana/ [fõn̪ˈt̪a.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: fon‧ta‧na

Noun

fontana f (plural fontanas)

1. (poetic, formal, archaic) fountain

Related terms

• fuente
• hontana

 

Further reading

• “fontano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014