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|lnetxt=fons fontis N M :: [[spring]], [[fountain]]; [[source]]; [[principal cause]]
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{{Lewis
|lshtext=<b>fons</b>: fontis, m. [[root]] in Gr. χέϝω, χεύσω, to [[pour]], [[χύμα]], χοή, etc.; Lat. [[fundo]], [[futtilis]]. Fons, i. e. [[stem]] font, for fovont = χεϝοντ-; cf. Varr. L. L. 5, § 123 Müll.; and Paul. ex Fest. p. 84,<br /><b>I</b> a [[spring]], [[fountain]], [[well]]-[[source]] (syn.: scaturigo, [[puteus]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[late]] [[parvus]] aquaï Prata riget [[fons]], Lucr. 5, 603: [[fons]] [[dulcis]] aquaï, id. 6, 890: [[fons]] aquae [[dulcis]], cui [[nomen]] [[Arethusa]] est, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 53, § 118: rivorum a fonte [[deductio]], id. Top. 8, 33: est [[apud]] Hammonis [[fanum]] [[fons]] [[luce]] [[diurna]] Frigidus, et [[calidus]] nocturno tempore, Lucr. 6, 848 sq.; cf. ib. 873: eunt ad fontem, nitidant (i. e. abluunt) corpora, Enn. ap. Non. 144, 16 (Trag. v. 166 ed. Vahl.); Caes. B. C. 2, 24 fin.; 3, 49, 5: ([[Romulus]]) locum delegit fontibus abundantem, Cic. Rep. 2, 6: fontium qui celat origines, [[Nilus]], Hor. C. 4, 14, 45; id. Ep. 1, 16, 12; id. Epod. 2, 27: fontes Alandri, Liv. 38, 15, 15: Padi [[fons]] diebus aestivis aret, Plin. 2, 102, 105, § 229: vestris amicum fontibus et choris, Hor. C. 3, 4, 25: fas pervicaces est mihi Thyiadas Vinique fontem [[lactis]] et uberes Cantare rivos, the fountains or streams of [[wine]] [[drawn]] from the [[earth]] by the [[stroke]] of the [[thyrsus]], id. ib. 2, 19, 10: cum tui fontes vel inimicis tuis pateant, Cic. Mur. 4, 9.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Esp.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[mineral]] [[spring]], [[healing]] waters, = aquae, frigidi medicatique fontes, Cels. 4, 5; cf.: [[caput]] et stomachum supponere fontibus Clusinis, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 8: [[fons]] [[calidus]] medicae salubritatis, Plin. 5, 15, 16, § 72: medicatorum fontium vis, id. 2, 93, 95, § 207.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf., [[spring]]-[[water]], [[water]] ([[poet]].): [[utrum]] fontine an Libero [[imperium]] te inhibere [[mavis]]? Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 26: alii fontemque ignemque ferebant, Verg. A. 12, 119; Luc. 5, 337. —<br /><b>II</b> Trop., a [[fountain]]-[[head]], [[source]], [[origin]], [[cause]]: meos amicos...ad Graecos [[ire]] jubeo, ut ea a fontibus [[potius]] [[potius]] hauriant, [[quam]] rivulos consectentur, Cic. Ac. 1, 2, 8; so opp. rivuli, id. de Or. 2, 27, 117; id. Cael. 8, 19: [[fons]] maledicti, id. Planc. 23, 57: hic [[fons]], hoc [[principium]] est movendi, id. Rep. 6, 25: scribendi recte sapere est et [[principium]] et [[fons]], Hor. A. P. 309; cf.: [[Cilicia]] [[origo]] et [[fons]] belli, Flor. 3, 6: ab [[illo]] fonte et capite Socrate, Cic. de Or. 1, 10, 42: quorum (philosophorum) [[fons]] [[ipse]] [[Socrates]], Quint. 1, 10, 13; cf.: [[atqui]] rerum [[caput]] hoc erat et [[fons]], Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 45: oratorum [[partus]] [[atque]] fontes, Cic. Brut. 13, 49: haec omnia ex [[eodem]] fonte fluxerunt, id. N. D. 3, 19, 48: omnes omnium rerum, quae ad dicendum pertinerent, fontes [[animo]] ac [[memoria]] continere, id. de Or. 1, 21, 94: philosophiae fontes aperire, id. Tusc. 1, 3, 6: totos eloquentiae aperire, Quint. 6, 1, 51: dicendi facultatem ex intimis sapientiae fontibus fluere, id. 12, 2, 6; cf. id. 5, 10, 19: fontes ut adire remotos Atque haurire queam vitae praecepta [[beate]], Hor. S. 2, 4, 94: ex iis fontibus [[unde]] omnia ornamenta dicendi sumuntur, Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 45; id. Rep. 5, 3: [[causa]] [[atque]] [[fons]] maeroris, id. Tusc. 3, 28, 67: [[benevolentia]], qui est amicitiae [[fons]] a [[natura]] [[constitutus]], id. Lael. 14, 50: is [[fons]] mali hujusce fuit, Liv. 39, 15, 9: [[fons]] vitii et perjurii, thou [[source]] of all [[iniquity]], Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 51; cf. Petr. 24.—<br /><b>III</b> Fons, personified as a [[deity]], [[with]] a [[chapel]], Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 52.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=(1) <b>fōns</b>,⁸ [[tis]], m. ([[fundo]]), source, fontaine : Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 118 ; Cæs. C. 3, 49, 5 &#124;&#124; [poét.] eau : Virg. En. 12, 119 ; Luc. 5, 337 &#124;&#124; [fig.] source, origine, cause, principe : Cic. de Or. 1, 42 ; Tusc. 3, 67 ; Nat. 3, 48 ; Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 45 ; P. 309.||[poét.] eau : Virg. En. 12, 119 ; Luc. 5, 337||[fig.] source, origine, cause, principe : Cic. de Or. 1, 42 ; Tusc. 3, 67 ; Nat. 3, 48 ; Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 45 ; P. 309.
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{{Georges
|georg=(1) fōns<sup>1</sup>, fontis, m. (v. [[fundo]], s. [[Varro]] LL. 5, 123. Paul. ex [[Fest]]. 84, 16), I) die [[Quelle]], f. Bandusiae, Hor.: f. Aponi, Suet.: f. [[calidus]], [[frigidus]], Lucr. u. Ov.: fontes frigidi medicatique, Cels.: caldi frigidique fontes, Liv. epit.: benignissimus [[fons]] (im Bilde = [[Urquell]] der [[Gnade]]), Sen.: f. [[perennis]], Hirt. b. G.: [[putealis]], Col.: suscitare et elicere fontem, Plin. ep.: [[fons]] aquae prorumpebat ab ea parte, Hirt. b. G.: [[solum]] [[pingue]] crebri fontes rigant, Curt.: fontes [[celeriter]] aestibus exarescebant, Caes.: [[quo]] [[facto]] [[repente]] [[perennis]] exaruit [[fons]], Hirt. b. G.: in [[hac]] [[insula]] extrema est [[fons]] aquae [[dulcis]], [[cui]] [[nomen]] [[Arethusa]] est, Cic.: im Bilde, T. [[Livius]] [[lacteo]] eloquentiae fonte manans, [[Hieron]]. epist. 53, 1. – meton. (poet.) = [[Quellwasser]], Verg. u.a. – II) übtr., die [[Quelle]] = der [[Ursprung]], die [[Ursache]] ([[oft]] verb. [[fons]] et [[caput]], s. [[caputno]]. I, B a. E.), philosophiae, Cic.: iuris, Liv.: mali, Liv.: a fonte repetere, Liv. – / ungew. Abl. Sing. fonti, [[nach]] [[Varro]] LL. 9, 112: arch. Abl. Sing. fontei, Corp. inscr. Lat. 1, 199, 6: arch. Akk. Plur. fonteis, [[nach]] [[Charis]]. 129, 19.
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|trtx====[[spring]]===
Afrikaans: bron; Albanian: burim; Arabic: عَيْن, يَنْبُوع; Moroccan Arabic: عْيْن; Aragonese: fuent; Armenian: աղբյուր, ակ, ակունք, ակունք; Assamese: উঁহ, পুং; Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܸܒ݂ܥܵܐ; Asturian: fonte, fuente; Atong: tyimuk; Avar: ицц; Azerbaijani: bulaq; Baluchi: چمگ; Bashkir: шишмә; Basque: iturri; Belarusian: жарало, крыні́ца; Bikol Central: burabod; Breton: eienenn eien, andon, mammenn; Bulgarian: извор; Catalan: font, deu; Cebuano: tubod; Chinese Eastern Min: 泉; Mandarin: 泉, 源泉; Classical Nahuatl: āmēyalli; Czech: zřídlo, pramen; Danish: kilde; Dutch: [[bron]], [[wel]]; Eastern Bontoc: fofon, ogwor; Esperanto: fonto; Estonian: allikas, läte, veesilm; Finnish: lähde; Franco-Provençal: font; French: [[source]]; Galician: fonte, manancial, manadeiro, gorgolo, xurre, rieiro, corga, troa, olleiro; Garo: chimik; Georgian: წყარო; German: [[Quelle]]; Greek: [[πηγή]]; Ancient Greek: [[κράνα]], [[κρανίς]], [[κράννα]], [[κρηναῖον γάνος]], [[κρήνη]], [[κρηνίς]], [[κρουνός]], [[νᾶμα]], [[νασμός]], [[ὕδατος νοτίς]], [[πηγή]], [[πηγίον]], [[πῖδαξ]]; Hawaiian: puna; Hebrew: מַעְיָן, עַיִן; Higaonon: tubod; Hindi: चश्मा; Hungarian: forrás; Icelandic: lind, uppspretta, brunnur, vatnsrás; Ido: fonto; Ilocano: ubbug; Indonesian: mata air; Interlingua: fonte; Irish: foinse; Italian: [[fonte]], [[sorgente]]; Japanese: 泉, 温泉; Kashaya: ʔahqʰa; Kazakh: бұлақ; Korean: 샘; Kurdish Central Kurdish: کانی; Laki: کەنی; Northern Kurdish: kanî, kehnî; Southern Kurdish: کیەنی; Kyrgyz: булак; Lao: ນ້ຳພຸ; Latgalian: olūts; Latin: [[scatebra]], [[scaturgo]]; Latvian: avots; Lithuanian: šaltinis, versmė, verdenė; Lubuagan Kalinga: uud; Luxembourgish: Quell; Macedonian: извор, вруток; Malay: mata air; Maltese: nixxiegħa, għajn; Manchu: ᡧᡝᡵᡳ; Mansaka: tobod; Maori: puna, kōmanawa; Meänkieli: kaltio; Middle English: spryng; Minangkabau: mato aia; Mòcheno: prunn; Mongolian Cyrillic: булаг; Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠯᠠᠭ; Ngazidja Comorian: dzitso la madji; Norman: r'source; Norwegian Bokmål: kilde; Occitan: font; Ojibwe: dakib; Old French: fontaine; Ottoman Turkish: قایناق, چشمه; Persian: چشمه, خانی; Polish: źródło, zdrój, krynica; Portuguese: [[fonte]], [[manancial]]; Quechua: pukyu; Romani: zvoro; Romanian: izvor; Russian: [[источник]], [[ключ]], [[родник]], [[студенец]]; Samoan: puna; Sanskrit: उत्स; Sardinian: mitza; Scottish Gaelic: fuaran; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: ѝзвор; Roman: ìzvor; Shan: ႁူးၼမ်ႉၸိုမ်း; Sicilian: fonti, funti; Slovak: žriedlo, prameň; Slovene: izvír; Southern Kalinga: chagsi; Spanish: [[fuente]], [[manantial]], [[vertiente]]; Swahili: kisima; Swedish: källa; Tagalog: bukal, batis; Tajik: чашма; Tarifit: tara; Tatar: чишмә; Thai: น้ำพุ; Tibetan: ཆུ་མིག; Tocharian B: ālme; Turkish: kaynak, pınar, bulak, memba; Turkmen: çeşme; Tuwali Ifugao: ob-ob, hobwak, otbol; Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎁𐎋; Ukrainian: джерело, криниця; Urdu: چشمہ; Uyghur: بۇلاق; Uzbek: buloq, chashma; Venetian: fontego, fóntego; Walloon: sourdant, sourdon, sourd, fontinne; Waray-Waray: burabod; Welsh: ffynnon; West Frisian: welle; Yagnobi: чишма; Yakut: дьүүктэ; Yiddish: קוואַל, קרעניצע; Zazaki: çıme, çem
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