fontaine
French
noun
Definitions
- fountain
- (juggling) fountain
- cistern (domestic); tank (of a flush toilet)
- standpipe
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French fontaine inherited from Old French fontaine inherited from Latin fontāna, fontānus.
Origin
Latin
fontānus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Bellefontaine English
- Lafontaine English
- fountain English
- fons Latin
- fontana Latin
- fontanus Latin
- fontāna Latin
- fontānus Latin
- la, fontāna Latin
- fontein Dutch, Flemish
- Bellefontaine French
- Lafontaine French
- beau French
- fontainerie French
- fontainier French
- la French
- фонта́н Russian
- fontana Spanish, Castilian
- font Norwegian Bokmål
- fontene Norwegian Bokmål
- font Norwegian Nynorsk
- fontene Norwegian Nynorsk
- fontr Old Norse
- fontaine Old French
- fontenele Old French
- fontano Esperanto
- fântână Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ffynnon Welsh
- fontein Afrikaans
- fontaine Middle French
- fãntãnã Aromanian
- fontane Friulian
- funtana Sicilian
- funtana Ladin