See fons in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "fontāna"
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"word": "fonticulus"
}
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},
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"name": "desc"
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},
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"2": "fonte",
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"name": "desc"
}
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"text": "Asturian: fonte f, fuente f"
},
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"2": "font",
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},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Catalan: font f"
},
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{
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"2": "fuenti",
"3": "huenti"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Extremaduran: fuenti, huenti"
},
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},
"expansion": "Franco-Provençal: font",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Franco-Provençal: font"
},
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{
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"2": "fonts",
"g": "m-p"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "French: fonts m pl"
},
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"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
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"1": "it",
"2": "fonte",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "Italian: fonte f",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Italian: fonte f"
},
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"args": {
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"2": "fonte"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Leonese: fonte"
},
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"2": "fuonte",
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},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Mirandese: fuonte f"
},
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},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Occitan: fònt f"
},
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"2": "fonte",
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"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: fonte f, fõte, ffonte\nFala: fonti f\nGalician: fonte f\nPortuguese: fonte f"
},
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},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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{
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"2": "fuente",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: fuente f",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: fuente f"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "vec",
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},
"expansion": "Venetan: fontego",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Venetan: fontego"
},
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},
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
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},
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}
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},
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},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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}
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},
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"masculine"
]
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]
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"source": "declension",
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]
},
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]
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"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fontī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fontibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fontem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
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"plural"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
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"singular"
]
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
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"plural",
"vocative"
]
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},
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"name": "la-noun"
}
],
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},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "la",
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{
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{
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},
{
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"langcode": "la",
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}
],
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],
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[
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"water"
],
[
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"issue"
],
[
"ground",
"ground"
],
[
"spring",
"spring"
]
],
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]
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],
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],
[
"sea",
"sea"
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"(poetic, usually in the plural) the water or waters of a river, sea etc."
],
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"plural-normally",
"poetic"
]
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],
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"font"
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],
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"metonymically"
]
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"name": "Christianity",
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"parents": [],
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"_dis": "8 5 25 29 16 16",
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"the baptismal font (a pool or basin of water used for baptism)"
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"well",
"well"
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"fountain",
"fountain"
],
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"font",
"font"
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[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"baptismal font",
"baptismal font"
],
[
"pool",
"pool#English"
],
[
"baptism",
"baptism#English"
]
],
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"(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)"
],
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"metonymically"
],
"topics": [
"Christianity"
]
},
{
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{
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"parents": [],
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
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"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Landforms",
"orig": "la:Landforms",
"parents": [],
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}
],
"glosses": [
"the origin or source of a river (also figuratively)"
],
"id": "en-fons-la-noun-XeIXM0Pm",
"links": [
[
"origin",
"origin#English"
],
[
"source",
"source#English"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) the origin or source of a river (also figuratively)"
],
"tags": [
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"declension-3"
]
},
{
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{
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"parents": [],
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},
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}
],
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"the origin or source of a river (also figuratively)",
"the foundation, basic principle, cause"
],
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[
"origin",
"origin#English"
],
[
"source",
"source#English"
],
[
"foundation",
"foundation"
],
[
"basic",
"basic"
],
[
"principle",
"principle"
],
[
"cause",
"cause"
]
],
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"(by extension) the origin or source of a river (also figuratively)",
"the foundation, basic principle, cause"
],
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"declension-3"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈfõːs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɔns]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "fons"
}
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"Latin lemmas",
"Latin masculine nouns",
"Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰenh₂-",
"Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin third declension nouns",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"la:Landforms"
],
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{
"word": "fontānus"
},
{
"word": "fontāna"
},
{
"word": "fonticulus"
}
],
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"depth": 1,
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"args": {
"1": "an",
"2": "fuent",
"g": "f"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Aragonese: fuent f"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "ast",
"2": "fonte",
"3": "fuente",
"g1": "f",
"g2": "f"
},
"expansion": "Asturian: fonte f, fuente f",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Asturian: fonte f, fuente f"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "font",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "Catalan: font f",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Catalan: font f"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "ext",
"2": "fuenti",
"3": "huenti"
},
"expansion": "Extremaduran: fuenti, huenti",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Extremaduran: fuenti, huenti"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "frp",
"2": "font"
},
"expansion": "Franco-Provençal: font",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Franco-Provençal: font"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "fonts",
"g": "m-p"
},
"expansion": "French: fonts m pl",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "French: fonts m pl"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "fonte",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "Italian: fonte f",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Italian: fonte f"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-leo",
"2": "fonte"
},
"expansion": "Leonese: fonte",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Leonese: fonte"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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"1": "mwl",
"2": "fuonte",
"g": "f"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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"1": "oc",
"2": "fònt",
"g": "f"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "roa-opt",
"2": "fonte",
"g": "f"
},
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"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Old Galician-Portuguese: fonte f, fõte, ffonte\nFala: fonti f\nGalician: fonte f\nPortuguese: fonte f"
},
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"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
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"2": "funti"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
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"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "fuente",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: fuente f",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "vec",
"2": "fontego"
},
"expansion": "Venetan: fontego",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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{
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"2": "font",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "font"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Middle English: font"
},
{
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"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "font"
},
"expansion": "English: font",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "English: font"
}
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"2": "inh",
"3": "itc-pro>*fontis>spring",
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},
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},
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"2": "itc-pro",
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},
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"name": "cog"
}
],
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"canonical",
"masculine"
]
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"form": "fontis",
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"genitive"
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"table-tags"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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]
},
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"form": "fōns",
"source": "declension",
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"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fontēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "fontis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fontium",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fontī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fontibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fontem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fontēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fontīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fonte",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "fontibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "fōns",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "fontēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fōns<3.I>",
"g": "m"
},
"expansion": "fōns m (genitive fontis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fōns<3.I>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"water issuing from the ground, a spring"
],
"links": [
[
"water",
"water"
],
[
"issuing",
"issue"
],
[
"ground",
"ground"
],
[
"spring",
"spring"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin poetic terms"
],
"glosses": [
"the water or waters of a river, sea etc."
],
"links": [
[
"river",
"river"
],
[
"sea",
"sea"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(poetic, usually in the plural) the water or waters of a river, sea etc."
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"plural-normally",
"poetic"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a well, fountain or font (a large container where water pools)"
],
"links": [
[
"well",
"well"
],
[
"fountain",
"fountain"
],
[
"font",
"font"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by metonymy) a well, fountain or font (a large container where water pools)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"metonymically"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"la:Christianity"
],
"glosses": [
"a well, fountain or font (a large container where water pools)",
"the baptismal font (a pool or basin of water used for baptism)"
],
"links": [
[
"well",
"well"
],
[
"fountain",
"fountain"
],
[
"font",
"font"
],
[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"baptismal font",
"baptismal font"
],
[
"pool",
"pool#English"
],
[
"baptism",
"baptism#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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)"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"metonymically"
],
"topics": [
"Christianity"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"the origin or source of a river (also figuratively)"
],
"links": [
[
"origin",
"origin#English"
],
[
"source",
"source#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) the origin or source of a river (also figuratively)"
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"the origin or source of a river (also figuratively)",
"the foundation, basic principle, cause"
],
"links": [
[
"origin",
"origin#English"
],
[
"source",
"source#English"
],
[
"foundation",
"foundation"
],
[
"basic",
"basic"
],
[
"principle",
"principle"
],
[
"cause",
"cause"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) the origin or source of a river (also figuratively)",
"the foundation, basic principle, cause"
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"declension-3"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈfõːs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈfɔns]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "fons"
}
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