font

font · noun¹

1. Latin · derived fromfōns, fontis“fountain”
2. Old English · inherited fromfont
3. English todayfont

From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).

font · noun, verb²

1. Latin · derived fromfundō
2. Late Latin · derived from*fundita
3. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ǵʰewd-“to pour”
4. Latin · derived fromfundere
5. Old French · derived fromfondre
6. Middle French · derived fromfonte“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”
7. English todayfont

From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either: * from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or * from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).

font · noun³

Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).

Font · proper noun⁴

Clipping of Fontainebleau.

Font · proper noun⁵

* As a southern French and Catalan surname, from font (“spring, well”). * As an English surname, variant of Fant.

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