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FontEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Clipping of Fontainebleau.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗FontEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
* As a southern French and Catalan surname, from font (“spring, well”). * As an English surname, variant of Fant.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗fontEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗fontEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
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).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗fontEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
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).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗fontEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
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