fount

English

Etymology 1

Shortening of fountain

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -aʊnt

Noun

fount (plural founts)

Something from which water flows.
A device from which poultry may drink.
(figuratively) That from which something flows or proceeds; a source.
He is a real fount of knowledge!

Synonyms

font
fountain
(device from which animals drink): waterer

Translations

something from which water flows

Aragonese: fuent (an) f
Bulgarian: извор (bg) m (izvor), изто́чник (bg) m (iztóčnik)
Extremaduran: fuenti, huenti
French: source (fr) f, fontaine (fr) f, fontaine (fr) f
German: Quelle (de) f

Greek: πηγή (el) f (pigí) (pigí), βρύση (el) f (vrýsi) (vrísi), κρήνη (el) f (kríni) (kríni)
Italian: fonte (it) f
Latin: fons (la) m
Russian: исто́чник (ru) m (istóčnik), ключ (ru) m (ključ)
Spanish: fuente (es) f

metaphorical source

Aragonese: fuent (an) f
Bulgarian: първоизточник (bg) m (pǎrvoiztočnik)
Extremaduran: fuenti, huenti
French: source (fr) f, origine (fr) f, origine (fr) f
German: Quelle (de) f, Born (de) m

Greek: πηγή (el) f (pigí) (pigí)
Italian: fonte (it) f
Russian: исто́чник (ru) m (istóčnik), первоисто́чник (ru) m (pervoistóčnik)
Spanish: fuente (es) f

drinking device for animals — see waterer

Etymology 2

From Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

Alternative forms

font

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɒnt/
Homophone: font

Noun

fount (plural founts)

(typography, Britain, dated) A typographic font.
- 1933, Dorothy Sayers, chapter 4, in Murder Must Advertise:
  Mr. Tallboy corrected the misprints, damned their eyes for using the wrong name-block, made it clear to them that they had set the headlines in the wrong fount, cut the proof to pieces, pasted it up again in the correct size, and returned it.

References

“fount” 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.

Anagrams

futon

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