fountain · cistern (domestic); tank (of a flush toilet) · standpipe
çekim: çoğul fontaines
eş: source, vasque
köken: Inherited from Middle French fontaine, from Old French fontaine, from Late Latin fontāna, from substantivation of the adjective Latin fontānus, from fons.
aile: Bellefontaine, Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, cresson de fontaine, femme fontaine, fontaine de jouvence, fontaine de lave
köken: Borrowed from Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from fōns; this form was probably derived from or influenced by Old French (as evidenced by an older Spanish variant fontaina). Cf. also the form hontana, which may have been more popular. It is still found as a popular or inherited element in some geographical place names and some derivative forms.
fountain · source, spring · a firework that sends relatively slow sparks in the air which then fall down, very much resembling a fountain
çekim: çoğul fontane
eş: fonte, sorgente, polla
köken: From Late Latin fontāna, from Latin fontānus, from fōns. The meaning of fountain, as an artificial installation, may be partly derived from or influenced by the Old French equivalent.
köken: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شادروان (şadırvan, şadrevan), from Classical Persian شادروان (šādurwān). Contaminated with συντρίβω (syntrívo, “to shatter, crush”).
köken: Inherited from Late Latin fontāna, from a substantivation of the adjective Latin fontānus, from fons. Developed phonologically in Romanian via assimilation from an earlier form *funtână (Attested in early 1900s Fărșerot Aromanian funtãnã). Compare to the more typical Aromanian fãntãnã, and also Sardinian fantana.