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fontis

fontis is a Latin form of fons, meaning “spring, fountain; source, origin”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 92 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.41.4: Eodem tempore cuniculos tectos ab vineis agunt ad caput fontis; quod genus operis sine ullo periculo, sine suspicione hostium facere licebat.

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.52: … st enim alia Tellus); sin terra, mare etiam, quem Neptunum esse dicebas; ergo et flumina et fontes. itaque et Fontis delubrum Masso ex Corsica dedicavit, et in augurum precatione Tiberinum Spinonem Anemonem Nodinum alia propin …

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.