fons
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English
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]fons
Verb
[edit ]fons
- third-person singular simple present indicative of fon
Catalan
[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]Etymology 1
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]fons m (invariable )
- bottom (lowest part)
- background (part of picture)
Related terms
[edit ]Etymology 2
[edit ]Verb
[edit ]fons
Further reading
[edit ]- "fons", in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- "fons", in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- "fons" in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), "fons", in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Latin
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]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
[edit ]- (Classical Latin ) IPA (key): [ˈfõːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical ) IPA (key): [ˈfɔns]
Noun
[edit ]fōns m (genitive fontis ); third declension
- water issuing from the ground, a spring
- (poetic , usually in the plural ) the water or waters of a river, sea etc.
- (by metonymy) a well, fountain or font (a large container where water pools)
- (Christianity ) the baptismal font (a pool or basin of water used for baptism )
- (by extension) the origin or source of a river (also figuratively )
- the foundation, basic principle, cause
Declension
[edit ]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
[edit ]Descendants
[edit ]- 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
- Spanish: fuente f
- Venetan: fonte , fontego
- → Old English: font
References
[edit ]- "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
[edit ]- "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...)
- to draw from the fountain-head: e fontibus haurire (opp. rivulos consectari or fontes non videre)
- "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
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Old Occitan , from Latin fundus .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]fons m
- bottom (lowest part)
Related terms
[edit ]Descendants
[edit ]- → Basque: funts
Romansh
[edit ]Alternative forms
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]fons m (plural fons)
Umbrian
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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.
Alternative forms
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Uncertain. Various theories have been proposed:
- De Vaan suggests a derivation from Proto-Italic *fVu(V)ni-, itself perhaps ultimately from the root *bheh2- .[1]
- Alternatively, the term has been derived from Proto-Indo-European *gwhow-ni-, itself from the root *gwhew- .[2] It is likely that the term is cognate with Latin faveō .
- Prósper proposes a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *bhow(H)ni- ("favorable"), whence also possibly the Venetic source of Latin Foniō .[3]
Adjective
[edit ]fons m (nominative singular) (late Iguvine )
- The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- (per De Vaan) merciful
- (per Poultney) favorable
- (per Meiser) propitious
Declension
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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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