fontes

fontes is a Latin form of fons, meaning “spring, fountain; source, origin”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 162 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.49: … ui demissa ac palustria et puteos fodere cogebantur atque hunc laborem ad cotidiana opera addebant; qui tamen fontes a quibusdam praesidiis aberant longius et celeriter aestibus exarescebant. At Caesaris exercitus optima valet …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.69: … tés laetificae pámpinis pubéscere, Ramí bacarum ubértate incurvéscere, Segetés largiri frúges, florere ómnia, Fontés scatere, herbis práta convestírier, tum multitudinem pecudum partim ad vescendum, partim ad cultus agrorum, p …

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 7.11.3: In medio altitudinis spatio habet specum, cuius os artum et obscurum est: paulatim deinde ulteriora panduntur, ultima etiam altos recessus habent. Fontes per totum fere specum manant, e quibus collatae aquae per prona montis flumen emittunt.

All forms of fons (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.