Where does “fuente” come from?

fuente (Spanish) comes from Old Spanish fuente, from Latin fons, from Latin fontis — genitive singular of fōns.

fuente (Spanish): spring (water), fountain

Definitions

  1. spring (water), fountain

Ancestry of “fuente”, step by step

fuente traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Spanish fuente

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Spanishfuente—
2Latinfonsa spring, a fountain; fresh water, spring water;...
3Latinfontisgenitive singular of fōns

via Latin fōntem

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfōntem—

Words derived from “fuente”

Every word from Latin fontis →Every word from Latin fons →Every word from Old Spanish fuente →