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fountain
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fa?n.tn?/
- (US) IPA(key): [?fa?n.?n?]
Noun
fountain (plural fountains)
- (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
- An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
- 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5:
- Nothing will plea?e ?ome Men, but Books ?tuff’d with Antiquity, groaning under the weight of Learned Quotations drawn from the Fountains: And what is all this but Pilfering.
- 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 5:
- (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
- (US) A soda fountain.
- 2014, Danielle Sarver Coombs, ?Bob Batchelor, We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life... and Always Has (page 222)
- He takes out a soup bowl, fills it with Pepsi from the fountain, and places it carefully on the counter in front of the boy. “That'll be a quarter,” he says professionally.
- 2014, Danielle Sarver Coombs, ?Bob Batchelor, We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life... and Always Has (page 222)
- (US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
- A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
Synonyms
- fount
- wellspring
- (heraldry) syke
Derived terms
Related terms
- font
Translations
Verb
fountain (third-person singular simple present fountains, present participle fountaining, simple past and past participle fountained)
- (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
- 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
- The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.
- 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
Translations
References
Further reading
- fountain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- infonaut
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font
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)
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- Synonym: stoup
- Hyponym: baptismal font
- A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
- (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)
- (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.
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- 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.
- (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)
- (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.
- 1981, William Safire, On language (page 78)
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)
- (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
- A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
- 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.
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
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)
- fountain
- source (of water)
- source (origin)
- (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
- third-person plural present indicative of faire
Friulian
Alternative forms
- fonz
Etymology
From Latin fundus.
Noun
font m (plural fonts)
- bottom
- background
- landed property, farm
- 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)
- pound (weight)
- 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)
- (typography) digital font (set of glyphs of unified design contained in a computer file)
Declension
Etymology 3
From the verb fon +? -t.
Verb
font
- third-person singular indicative past indefinite of fon
Participle
font
- 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)
- a baptismal font
- (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)
- a baptismal font
- (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
- (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
- (typography) a font
Usage notes
- The synonym teckensnitt is considered more correct.
Declension
Synonyms
- teckensnitt
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