Italian

Noun

fontana f ‎(plural fontane)

1. fountain
2. source, spring

Synonyms

• fonte (2)
• sorgente (2)

Derived terms

Related terms

• fonte

Anagrams

• tanfano

Latin

Etymology

Found in Vulgar Latin and Late Latin. From Classical Latin fontanus ‎(“of a spring”), from fons ‎(“spring”), fontis.

Noun

fontana

1. spring, fountain, source

Descendants

References

• fontana in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• FONTANA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fontana”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fòntāna f ‎(Cyrillic spelling фо̀нта̄на)

1. fountain (artificial water feature)

Declension