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fontana

See also: fontána and Fontana

Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin fontāna.

Noun

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fontana f (plural fontanes) (ORB, broad)

  1. fountain

References

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  • fontaine in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • fontana in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Italian

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Etymology

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From Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from fōns. The meaning of fountain, as an artificial installation, may be partly derived from or influenced by the Old French equivalent.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fonˈta.na/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Hyphenation: fon‧tà‧na

Noun

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fontana f (plural fontane)

  1. fountain
  2. source, spring
    Synonym: sorgente
  3. a firework that sends relatively slow sparks in the air which then fall down, very much resembling a fountain (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Derived terms

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Derived terms
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Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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Substantivation of the feminine of Classical fontānus (“of a spring”), from fōns (“spring”) (or a shortening of the expression fontana aqua).

Noun

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fontāna f (genitive fontānae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) spring, fountain, source

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fontāna fontānae
genitive fontānae fontānārum
dative fontānae fontānīs
accusative fontānam fontānās
ablative fontānā fontānīs
vocative fontāna fontānae

Descendants

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References

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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fǒntaːna/
  • Hyphenation: fon‧ta‧na

Noun

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fòntāna f (Cyrillic spelling фо̀нта̄на)

  1. fountain (artificial water feature)

Declension

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Declension of fontana
singular plural
nominative fontana fontane
genitive fontane fontana
dative fontani fontanama
accusative fontanu fontane
vocative fontano fontane
locative fontani fontanama
instrumental fontanom fontanama

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from fōns; this form was probably derived from or influenced by Old French (as evidenced by an older Spanish variant fontaina). Cf. also the form hontana, which may have been more popular. It is still found as a popular or inherited element in some geographical place names and some derivative forms.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fonˈtana/ [fõn̪ˈt̪a.na]
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Syllabification: fon‧ta‧na

Noun

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fontana f (plural fontanas)

  1. (poetic, formal, archaic) fountain
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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “fontana”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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