EuroLex/F/Fountain

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  • Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: fontaine - 1. a) fountain - an artificially created jet or stream of water; b) fountain - a structure, often decorative, from which a jet or stream of water issues; 2. source, spring


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Czech fontána ... 'meaning 1. b)' '...' ...
Danish fontæne ... 'meaning 1. b)' '...' ...
Dutch fontein 1a, b ... 'meaning 1. a), 1. b)' '...' ...
English noun: fountain; verb: to fountain "spring of water that collects in a pool": 15c;

"artificial jet of water": 16c

'meaning 1. a), 1. b), 2;

and also: c) a reservoir or chamber containing a supply of liquid that can be siphoned off as needed;

d) a soda fountain;

e) a drinking fountain;

f) a point of origin or dissemination, a source;

g) heraldry: a roundel barry-wavy, argent and azure;

verb: to flow or cause to flow like a fountain'

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Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Fontäne ... 'meaning 1. a), 1. b)' '...' ...
Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian fontana (more likely from L directly) ... 'meaning 1. b)' '...' ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian fontanas ... 'meaning 1. a), 1. b)' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian fontenevann, fontene ... 'fontenevann: meaning 1. a)

fontene: meaning 1. b)'

'...' ...
Polish fontanna ... 'meaning 1. a), 1. b)' '...' ...
Portuguese fonte (more likely from L directly) ... 'meaning 1. a), 1. b), 2' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak fontána ... 'meaning 1. a), 1. b)' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish fuente (more likely from L directly) ... 'meaning 1. a), 1. b), 2' '...' ...
Swedish fontän ... 'meaning 1. a), 1. b)' '...' ...

Annotations[edit | edit source]

Etymology: from OF fontaine "natural spring", from LL fontana "fountain, spring", from L fem. of fontanus "of a spring", from fons (gen. fontis) "spring (of water)"; cognate with Skt. dhanvati "flows, runs".

The extended sense of "artificial jet of water" (and the structures that make them) is first recorded 1509. Fountainhead "spring from which a stream flows" first recorded 1585. A French fountain-pen is described in 1658.


Source: http://www.etymonline.com

Information on Other Languages[edit | edit source]

Czech: vodotrysk (1. a); zdroj, pramen (2)

Danish: stråle, sprøjt (1. a); kilde (2)

Dutch: bron (2)

Estonian: purskkaev (1. a) & b); läte (2)

Finnish: suihkulähde (1. a) & b); lähde (2)

Hungarian: kút (1. a); szökőkút (1. b); forrás (2)

Italian: zampillo (1. a); origine, sorgente (2)

Latvian: strūklaka (1. a) & b); avots (2)

Lithuanian: šaltinis (2)

Norwegian: kilde, utspring (2)

Polish: źródło (2)

Slovak: prameň (2)

Slovenian: vodomet (1. a) & b); (iz)vir (2)

Swedish: källa (2)