font - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Article Images
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɒnt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɑnt/
- Rhymes: -ɒnt
From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).
font (plural fonts)
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- Synonym: stoup
- Hyponym: baptismal font
1791, Christopher Smart, “Moderation”, in Hymns for the Amusement of Children:
Blessed be God, that, at the font, / My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all.
1913, John Bertram Peterson, “Baptismal Font”, in Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 2:
In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]
- A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
a receptacle in church for holy water
Borrowed from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).
- fount (UK)
font (plural fonts)
- (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- (computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
- (computing, typography) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
- → Thai: ฟอนต์ (fɔ́n)
typesetting: a grouping of consistently-designed glyphs
- Arabic: خَطّ (ar) m (ḵaṭṭ), بُنْط m (bunṭ)
- Armenian: տառատեսակ (hy) (taṙatesak)
- Azerbaijani: şrift
- Belarusian: шрыфт m (šryft)
- Breton: nodrezh m
- Bulgarian: шрифт m (šrift)
- Burmese: ဖောင့် (hpaung.)
- Catalan: fosa (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: písmo (cs) n, font (cs) m
- Danish: skrifttype c
- Dutch: lettertype (nl) n, font (nl)
- Esperanto: tiparo
- Finnish: kirjasin (fi), kirjasinleikkaus (fi), fontti (fi)
- French: fonte (fr), police (fr) f
- Georgian: შრიფტი (šripṭi)
- German: Schriftart (de) f
- Greek: γραμματοσειρά (el) f (grammatoseirá), γραμματοστοιχείο n (grammatostoicheío)
- Hawaiian: kinona hua
- Hebrew: גופן (he) m (gofan)
- Hindi: फ़ॉन्ट (fŏnṭ)
- Icelandic: leturgerð f
- Indonesian: fon (id)
- Irish: clófhoireann f
- Italian: carattere (it) m
- Japanese: 字体 (ja) (じたい, jitai), フォント (ja) (fonto), 字形 (ja) (じけい, jikei)
- Kazakh: қаріп (qarıp)
- Khmer: ពុម្ពអក្សរ (km) (pum ʼaksɑɑ)
- Korean: 자체 (ko) (jache), 글꼴 (ko) (geulkkol), 자형 (ko) (jahyeong), 폰트 (ponteu), 서체 (ko) (seoche)
- Kyrgyz: шрифт (ky) (şrift)
- Lithuanian: šriftas
- Macedonian: тип (mk) m (tip) (1, 2), фонт m (font) (3)
- Malay: fon (ms), pasuan
- Maori: momotuhi
- Marathi: फाँट m (phŏṇṭa)
- Occitan: polissa (oc) f, poliça (oc)
- Persian: قلم (fa) (qalam)
- Polish: czcionka (pl) f
- Portuguese: fonte (pt) f, letra (pt) f, tipo de letra m
- Romanian: font (ro) n, corp de literă (ro) n
- Russian: шрифт (ru) m (šrift), фонт m (font)
- Scottish Gaelic: cruth-clò m
- Slovak: písmo n
- Spanish: tipo de letra m, tipografía (es) f, fuente (es)
- Swahili: fonti
- Swedish: teckensnitt (sv) n, font (sv) c, typsnitt (sv) n, stilsort c
- Tamil: எழுத்துரு (ta) (eḻutturu)
- Telugu: అక్షరాకృతి (akṣarākr̥ti)
- Thai: ฟอนต์ (th) (fɔ́n)
- Turkish: yazıtipi, söten
- Ukrainian: шрифт m (šryft), черенки́ m pl (čerenký)
- Uzbek: shrift (uz)
- Vietnamese: phông (vi), phông chữ
a computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs
- Arabic: خَطّ (ar) m (ḵaṭṭ), بُنْط m (bunṭ)
- Breton: nodrezh m
- Catalan: font (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Dutch: lettertype (nl), font (nl)
- Finnish: kirjasin (fi), fontti (fi)
- French: police d’écriture (fr) f
- German: Font (de) m, Zeichensatz (de) m, Schriftart (de) f
- Greek: γραμματοσειρά (el) f (grammatoseirá)
- Hawaiian: kinona hua
- Hungarian: font (hu)
- Indonesian: fon (id)
- Irish: cló (ga) m
- Italian: font (it) f
- Japanese: 字体 (ja) (じたい, jitai), フォント (ja) (fonto)
- Korean: 글꼴 (ko) (geulkkol)
- Macedonian: фонт m (font)
- Malay: pasuan, fon (ms)
- Marathi: फाँट m (phŏṇṭa)
- Polish: czcionka (pl) f, font (pl) m
- Portuguese: fonte (pt) f
- Russian: шрифт (ru) m (šrift), фонт m (font)
- Serbo-Croatian: pismenik (sh) m, font (sh) m
- Spanish: fuente (es) f
- Swedish: teckensnitt (sv) n, font (sv) c, typsnitt (sv) n, stilsort c
- Vietnamese: phông (vi), phông chữ
font (third-person singular simple present fonts, present participle fonting, simple past and past participle fonted)
- (television, colloquial, transitive) To overlay (text) on the picture.
1981, William Safire, On language, page 78:
When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.
1987, The Foundation Center, Promoting issues & ideas: a guide to public relations for nonprofit organizations, page 97:
[…] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.
- “font” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. →ISBN.
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
font (plural fonts)
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
- A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
The arts of which these lands were once the font
- A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
1910, Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II:
As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
1915, Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address:
I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
a source
- font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- holy water font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- baptismal font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Inherited from Latin fontem m.
font f (plural fonts)
- fountain
- source (of water)
- source (origin)
- (journalism) source
- (typography) font
(fountain): fontana
- “font” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “font”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “font” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “font” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
font
font m (plural fonts)
- bottom
- background
- landed property, farm
- fund
From German Pfund, from Latin pondo.[1]
font (plural fontok)
- pound (weight)
- pound (currency unit)
- Synonym: font sterling
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | font | fontok |
accusative | fontot | fontokat |
dative | fontnak | fontoknak |
instrumental | fonttal | fontokkal |
causal-final | fontért | fontokért |
translative | fonttá | fontokká |
terminative | fontig | fontokig |
essive-formal | fontként | fontokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | fontban | fontokban |
superessive | fonton | fontokon |
adessive | fontnál | fontoknál |
illative | fontba | fontokba |
sublative | fontra | fontokra |
allative | fonthoz | fontokhoz |
elative | fontból | fontokból |
delative | fontról | fontokról |
ablative | fonttól | fontoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
fonté | fontoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
fontéi | fontokéi |
Possessive forms of font | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | fontom | fontjaim |
2nd person sing. | fontod | fontjaid |
3rd person sing. | fontja | fontjai |
1st person plural | fontunk | fontjaink |
2nd person plural | fontotok | fontjaitok |
3rd person plural | fontjuk | fontjaik |
Borrowed from English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fundō (“I melt”).[1]
font (plural fontok)
- (typography) digital font (set of glyphs of unified design contained in a computer file)
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | font | fontok |
accusative | fontot | fontokat |
dative | fontnak | fontoknak |
instrumental | fonttal | fontokkal |
causal-final | fontért | fontokért |
translative | fonttá | fontokká |
terminative | fontig | fontokig |
essive-formal | fontként | fontokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | fontban | fontokban |
superessive | fonton | fontokon |
adessive | fontnál | fontoknál |
illative | fontba | fontokba |
sublative | fontra | fontokra |
allative | fonthoz | fontokhoz |
elative | fontból | fontokból |
delative | fontról | fontokról |
ablative | fonttól | fontoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
fonté | fontoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
fontéi | fontokéi |
Possessive forms of font | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | fontom | fontjaim |
2nd person sing. | fontod | fontjaid |
3rd person sing. | fontja | fontjai |
1st person plural | fontunk | fontjaink |
2nd person plural | fontotok | fontjaitok |
3rd person plural | fontjuk | fontjaik |
From the verb fon (“to spin [yarn], braid [hair], weave [basket], twist [rope], twine [arms]”) + -t.
font
font
- past participle of fon
- Synonym: (in certain senses) fonott
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | font | fontak |
accusative | fontat | fontakat |
dative | fontnak | fontaknak |
instrumental | fonttal | fontakkal |
causal-final | fontért | fontakért |
translative | fonttá | fontakká |
terminative | fontig | fontakig |
essive-formal | fontként | fontakként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | fontban | fontakban |
superessive | fonton | fontakon |
adessive | fontnál | fontaknál |
illative | fontba | fontakba |
sublative | fontra | fontakra |
allative | fonthoz | fontakhoz |
elative | fontból | fontakból |
delative | fontról | fontakról |
ablative | fonttól | fontaktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
fonté | fontaké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
fontéi | fontakéi |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
- (measure of weight; currency): font in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (past participle of fon: spun, braided, woven, twisted, twined): font in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2).
font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fonter, definite plural fontene)
- a baptismal font
- (typography) font, or fount (UK)
- “font” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2).
font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fontar, definite plural fontane)
- a baptismal font
- (typography) font, or fount (UK)
- “font” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Borrowed from English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).
font m inan
- font in Polish dictionaries at PWN
font n (plural fonturi)
font c
- (typography) a font
- The synonym teckensnitt is considered more correct.
Declension of font | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | font | fonten | fonter | fonterna |
Genitive | fonts | fontens | fonters | fonternas |