fontana

From Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from fōns. The meaning of fountain, as an artificial installation, may be partly derived from or influenced by the Old French equivalent.

• IPA^(key): /fonˈta.na/

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: fon‧tà‧na

fontana f (plural fontane)

1. fountain
2. source, spring

   Synonym: sorgente

3. a firework that sends relatively slow sparks in the air which then fall down, very much resembling a fountain (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

• fonte

• tanfano

Substantivation of the feminine of Classical fontānus (“of a spring”), from fōns (“spring”) (or a shortening of the expression fontana aqua).

fontāna f (genitive fontānae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) spring, fountain, source

First-declension noun.

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fontana in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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

fòntāna f (Cyrillic spelling фо̀нта̄на)

1. fountain (artificial water feature)

Borrowed from Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from fōns; this form was probably derived from or influenced by Old French (as evidenced by an older Spanish variant fontaina). Cf. also the form hontana, which may have been more popular. It is still found as a popular or inherited element in some geographical place names and some derivative forms.[1]

• IPA^(key): /fonˈtana/ [fõn̪ˈt̪a.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: fon‧ta‧na

fontana f (plural fontanas)

1. (poetic, formal, archaic) fountain

• “fontano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014