fons

fons

1. plural of fon

fons

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of fon

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈfons]

Inherited from Latin fundus.

fons m (invariable)

1. bottom (lowest part)

• fonera
• fundar

fons

1. second-person singular present indicative of fondre

• “fons” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fons”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “fons” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fons” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fons/, [fõːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fons/, [fɔns]

fōns m (genitive fontis); third declension

1. a spring, a fountain

   Quaesitum ad fontem solos deducere verpos.

   To guide only the circumcised to a sought fountain. —Juvenal, Satira XIV.104

2. fresh water, spring water
3. (by extension) an origin, a source
4. (Christianity) a pool or basin used for baptism

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• fontānus
• fontāna
• fonticulus

• 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
• “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, 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

From Old Occitan, from Latin fundus.

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fons m

1. bottom (lowest part)

• fondar

• → Basque: funts

• funs (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• fùns (Sutsilvan)
• fuonz (Puter)
• fuond (Vallader)

From Latin fundus.

fons m (plural fons)

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