Words that come from Latin “fons”

78 words across 29 languages descend from Latin fons — including fountain, font, Fontaine, fount, Bloemfontein, fountainhead, Bellefontaine, fontal.

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English (20)

Latin (6)

French (5)

Spanish (5)

Esperanto (4)

Ido (3)

Old French (3)

Old Spanish (3)

Afrikaans (2)

Asturian (2)

Dutch (2)

Aromanian (2)

Cebuano (2)

Romanian (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Catalan (1)

Galician (1)

Italian (1)

Friulian (1)

Ladin (1)

Sicilian (1)

Middle French (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Portuguese (1)

Old English (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Late Latin (1)

Old Norse (1)