The story
- Latin · derived fromfontānus
- Late Latin · derived fromfontāna
- Old French · derived fromfontenelle
- French · borrowed fromfontanelle
- English todayfontanelle
Borrowed from French fontanelle, from Old French fontenelle, a diminutive of fontaine (“fountain, spring”) + -elle, from Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from font- + -ānus. By surface analysis, font + -an + -elle.
Words from the same roots
Latinfontānus all →
fountain
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.