fons

Latin > English

fons fontis N M :: spring, fountain; source; principal cause

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

fons: 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,
I a spring, fountain, well-source (syn.: scaturigo, puteus).
I 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.—
   B Esp.
   1    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.—
   2    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. —
II 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.—
III Fons, personified as a deity, with a chapel, Cic. N. D. 3, 20, 52.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

(1) fōns,⁸ tis, m. (fundo), source, fontaine : Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 118 ; Cæs. C. 3, 49, 5 || [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.

Latin > German (Georges)

(1) fōns¹, 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.

Translations

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: fons, 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