fons

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

English

Noun

fons

  1. plural of fon

Verb

fons

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fon

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    Inherited from Latin fundus.

    Noun

    fons m (invariable)

    1. bottom (lowest part)
    2. background (part of picture)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    fons

    1. second-person singular present indicative of fondre

    Further reading

    Latin

    Etymology

      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”).

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      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

      Third-declension noun (i-stem).

      singular plural
      nominative fōns fontēs
      genitive fontis fontium
      dative fontī fontibus
      accusative fontem fontēs
      fontīs
      ablative fonte fontibus
      vocative fōns fontēs

      Derived terms

      Descendants

      • Aragonese: fuent f
      • Asturian: fonte f, fuente f
      • Catalan: font f
      • Extremaduran: fuenti, huenti
      • Franco-Provençal: font
      • French: fonts m pl
      • Italian: fonte f
      • Leonese: fonte
      • Mirandese: fuonte f
      • Occitan: fònt f
      • Old Galician-Portuguese: fonte f, fõte, ffonte
      • Sicilian: fonti, f
      • Spanish: fuente f
      • Venetan: fonte, fontego
      • → Old English: font

      References

      • “fōns” on page 790 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
      • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “fōns, fontis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 230–231

      Further reading

      • “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, 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[2], 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

      Etymology

      From Old Occitan, from Latin fundus.

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      fons m

      1. bottom (lowest part)

      Descendants

      Romansh

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      From Latin fundus.

      Noun

      fons m (plural fons)

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

      Umbrian

      The spelling of this entry has been normalized according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community or recent spelling standards of the language. This particular spelling is unattested.

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      Uncertain. Various theories have been proposed:

      Adjective

      fons m (nominative singular) (late Iguvine)

      1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
        1. (per De Vaan) merciful
        2. (per Poultney) favorable
        3. (per Meiser) propitious

      Declension

      • (genitive singular feminine) l.Ig. foner
      • (nominative plural) l.Ig. foner

      References

      1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “Faunus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 205-206
      2. ^ Meiser, Gerhard (2017), “Chapter VIII: Italic”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft [Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science]; 41.2), volume 2, Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The phonology of Italic, page 744
      3. ^ Prósper, Blanca María (2018), “The Venetic Names of Roman Siscia”, in Voprosy onomastiki‎[1], volume 15, number 3, →DOI, page 116 of 105–124
      • Buck, Carl Darling (1904), A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary‎[3], page 335
      • Poultney, James Wilson (1959), The Bronze Tables of Iguvium, Baltimore: American Philological Association, page 307
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