fontenelle
Old French edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
fontenelle oblique singular, f (oblique plural fontenelles, nominative singular fontenelle, nominative plural fontenelles)
- any place where two bones fuse together
- (in particular) fontanelle
Descendants edit
- English: fontanelle
- French: fontanelle
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fontenelle, supplement)