fontaine

Inherited from Middle French fontaine, from Old French fontaine, from Late Latin fontāna, from substantivation of the adjective Latin fontānus, from fons.

• IPA^(key): /fɔ̃.tɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn

fontaine f (plural fontaines)

1. fountain
2. (juggling) fountain
3. cistern (domestic); tank (of a flush toilet)
4. standpipe

• Bellefontaine
• Fontaine-de-Vaucluse
• cresson de fontaine
• femme fontaine
• fontaine de jouvence
• fontaine de lave

• “fontaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French fontaine.

fontaine f (plural fontaines)

1. fountain

• French: fontaine

From Late Latin fontāna, from substantivation of the adjective Latin fontānus, from fōns.

fontaine oblique singular, f (oblique plural fontaines, nominative singular fontaine, nominative plural fontaines)

1. fountain

• → Middle English:
  • English: fountain
• Middle French: fontaine
  • French: fontaine