fontium
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fons, fontis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
spring, fountain, well; source/fount; principal cause; font; baptistry;
gen. pl.
Examples
- L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...rationem reddiderimus de flumine, eadem erit riuorum ac fontium. [5,1] Quidam iudicant terram quicquid aquarum emisit rursus..." - L
de Providentia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...amnes, tantum superne deiectorum imbrium, tanta medicatorum uis fontium non mutant saporem maris, ne remittunt quidem, ita aduersarum..."