English search results for: font

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. baptistry
  2. font
  3. principal cause
  4. source/fount
  5. spring, fountain, well
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#2

adjective

Definitions:

  1. relating to purification
  2. serving to avert evil
  3. [fons ~ => holy water font]
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#3

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. holy-water font
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#4

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. holy-water font
  2. small shell
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#5

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. baptismal font
  2. baptistery
  3. plunge-bath, place for bathing/swimming
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)