Where does “font” come from?
font (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from French fonte, from English font, from Middle French fonte, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, from Latin fundo, from Latin fundus, from Proto-Indo-European bʰudʰmḗn — smoke; mist, haze.
font (Norwegian Nynorsk): a baptismal font; font, or fount
Definitions
- a baptismal font; font, or fount
Ancestry of “font”, step by step
font traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French fonte
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | fonte | melting, smelting, thawing; cast iron; font |
| 2 | English | font | A receptacle in a church for holy water,... |
| 3 | Middle French | fonte | — |
| 4 | Old French | fondre | to melt |
| 5 | Latin | fundere | second-person singular present passive... |
| 6 | Latin | fundo | I pour out, shed; I rout, scatter; I found, make... |
| 7 | Latin | fundus | bottom; farm; piece of land; estate; ground |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰudʰmḗn | bottom |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewbʰ- | deep |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |
via Old Norse fontr
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Norse | fontr | — |