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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• (US) IPA^(key): /f?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin f?ns, fontis (“fountain”).

Noun

font (plural fonts)

1. (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.

   Synonym: stoup

   Hyponym: baptismal font
2. A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
3. (figuratively) Spring, source, fountain.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

Alternative forms

• fount (UK)

Noun

font (plural fonts)

1. (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
   1. In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
   2. In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
   3. In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
2. (computing) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• Thai: ????? (f??n)

Verb

font (third-person singular simple present fonts, present participle fonting, simple past and past participle fonted)

1. (television, colloquial, transitive) To overlay (text) on the picture.
   • 1981, William Safire, On language (page 78)

     When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.

   • 1987, The Foundation Center, Promoting issues & ideas: a guide to public relations for nonprofit organizations (page 97)

     […] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.

References

• “font” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ?ISBN.

Etymology 3

Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).

Noun

font (plural fonts)

1. (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
   • 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V

     A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
     The arts of which these lands were once the font

   • 1910 — Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II

     As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.

   • 1915 — Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address

     I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.

Translations

Further reading

• font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• holy water font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• baptismal font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan font, from Latin fons, fontem, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

Noun

font m (plural fonts)

1. fountain
2. source (of water)
3. source (origin)
4. (journalism) source

Synonyms

(fountain): fontana

Derived terms

• codi font
• codi font obert

Related terms

• fontaner
• fontaneria
• fontinyol

Further reading

• “font” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

font

1. third-person plural present indicative of faire

Friulian

Alternative forms

• fonz

Etymology

From Latin fundus.

Noun

font m (plural fonts)

1. bottom
2. background
3. landed property, farm
4. fund

Related terms

• profont

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?font]
• Hyphenation: font
• Rhymes: -ont

Etymology 1

From German Pfund, from Latin pondo.

Noun

font (plural fontok)

1. pound (weight)
2. pound (currency unit)

   Synonym: font sterling

Declension

Derived terms

• fontol
• fontos

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fund? (“I melt”).

Noun

font (plural fontok)

1. (typography) digital font (set of glyphs of unified design contained in a computer file)

Declension

Etymology 3

From the verb fon +? -t.

Verb

font

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of fon

Participle

font

1. past participle of fon

   Synonym: (in certain senses) fonott

Declension

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2)

Noun

font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fonter, definite plural fontene)

1. a baptismal font
2. (typography) font, or fount (UK)

References

• “font” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2)

Noun

font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fontar, definite plural fontane)

1. a baptismal font
2. (typography) font, or fount (UK)

References

• “font” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?nt/

Noun

font m inan

1. (computing) font (computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs)

Declension

Further reading

• font in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• font in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

font c

1. (typography) a font

Usage notes

• The synonym teckensnitt is considered more correct.

Declension

Synonyms

• teckensnitt

English

Alternative forms

• Ø (linguistics, abbreviation)
• ? (mathematics, abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin n?llus.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /n?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

null (plural nulls)

1. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
2. Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
3. Something that has no force or meaning.
4. (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (?), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
5. (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.

   Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.

6. One of the beads in nulled work.
7. (statistics) Null hypothesis.

Translations

Adjective

null (comparative more null, superlative most null)

1. Having no validity; "null and void"
2. Insignificant.
   • 1924, Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove:

     In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.

3. Absent or non-existent.
4. (mathematics) Of the null set.
5. (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
6. (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.

Antonyms

• antinull
• non-null

Derived terms

• null determiner
• nullary
• nullity

Verb

null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)

1. (transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.
2. To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
3. (computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).

Related terms

• annul
• nulled work

See also

• nil

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Latin n?llus (“none”).

Numeral

null

1. (Luserna) zero

References

• “null” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Numeral

null

1. zero

Faroese

Etymology

From Latin nullus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Numeral

null

1. zero

Noun

null n (genitive singular nuls, plural null)

1. (mathematics) the numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero

Declension

German

Etymology

From the noun Null (“the number zero”), from Italian nulla, from Latin nulla, feminine singular of nullus (“no, none”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?l/

Numeral

null

1. zero; nil; nought; (tennis) love (integer number between -1 and 1, denoting no quantity at all)

2. (colloquial) zero; no

   Synonym: (überhaupt) kein

Coordinate terms

Adjective

null (not comparable)

1. (specialist, law, chiefly predicative) null (having no validity)

Declension

Derived terms

• null und nichtig (also in common use)

Further reading

• “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online; cp. “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online
• “null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache; cp. “Null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nul/

Numeral

null

1. zero

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin nullus (“no one, none, no”), from Proto-Italic *ne oinolos, from Proto-Italic *oinos (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”).

Determiner

null

1. no (determiner: not any)

   ha null penger - to have no money

Numeral

null

1. zero, nought, nil

Noun

null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nuller, definite plural nullene)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null or nuller, definite plural nulla or nullene)

1. zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
2. a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)

Derived terms

• nullstille
• nulltoleranse
• nullvekst

References

• “null” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin nullus

Determiner

null

1. no (determiner: not any)

   ha null pengar - to have no money

Numeral

null

1. zero, nought, nil

Noun

null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nullar, definite plural nullane)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null, definite plural nulla)

1. zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
2. a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)

Derived terms

• nulltoleranse
• nullvekst

References

• “null” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German null.

Numeral

null

1. zero