fōns

fōns Quelle

• 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfõːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔns]

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