Where does “fontaine” come from?

fontaine (French) comes from Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, from Latin -anus, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

fontaine (French): fountain

Definitions

  1. fountain

Ancestry of “fontaine”, step by step

fontaine traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin fontana

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfontanaspring, fountain, source
2Latinfontanusbearing a relation to the spring or source;...
3Latin-anusOf or pertaining to; -ian
4Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
5Proto-Italic*-om—
6Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

via Middle French fontaine

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchfontainefountain
2Old Frenchfontainefountain
3Latinfontānaspring, fountain, source
4Latinfontānusbearing a relation to the spring or source
5Latinfonsa spring, a fountain; fresh water, spring water;...
6Latinfontisgenitive singular of fōns

Words derived from “fontaine”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from Latin -um →Every word from Latin -anus →