# fons
## English
### Noun

fons
* plural of fon

### Verb

fons
* third-person singular simple present indicative of fon

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfons]

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin fundus.

#### Noun

fons m (invariable)
* bottom (lowest part)
* background (part of picture)

##### Related terms

* fonera
* fundar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

fons
* second-person singular present indicative of fondre

### Further reading

* “fons” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “fons”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## Latin
### Etymology

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: /ˈfons/, [ˈfõːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfons/, [ˈfɔns]

### Noun

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

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

#### Derived terms

* fontānus
* fontāna
* fonticulus

#### Descendants

* 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
** Fala: fonti f
** Galician: fonte f
** Portuguese: fonte f
* Sicilian: funti
* Spanish: fuente f
* Venetan: fontego
* → Old English: font
** Middle English: font
*** English: font

### References

* “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

* “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

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin fundus.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fons m
* bottom (lowest part)

#### Related terms

* fondar

#### Descendants

* → Basque: funts

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

From Latin fundus.

### Noun

fons m (plural fons)
* (Surmiran) field, land, soil, ground.