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6000 Most Frequent Esperanto Words [w/ 60k+ example sents]

Fonto Source Mi Plural Water Translator Malnova Testamento

The word "fonto" in Esperanto can refer to a natural source of water, like a spring or well, or figuratively to the origin or source of something, such as information.

La vorto "fonto" en Esperanto povas signifi naturan akvofonton aŭ ankaŭ la originejon de io, inkluzive de informoj.

Frequency Rank of Word 1284
Word fonto
Meanings
    spring
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spring
    ,
    well
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/well
    (water source),
    fount
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fount
    ,
    fountain
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fountain

    1915,

    L. L. Zamenhof
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
    (translator), Malnova Testamento, Genezo 24:43.

    (

    figuratively
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#figurative
    )
    source
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/source
Pinyin null
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Example Sentences
Wiktionary Entry
fonte
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fonte#Italian
, from
Latin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin
fontēs
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fontes#Latin
, nominative plural of
fons
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fons#Latin
.

Pronunciation

  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )    : /ˈfonto/
  • Hyphenation: fon‧to
  • Rhymes:
    -onto
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:Esperanto/onto
  • Audio:
    		(
    file
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:LL-Q143_(epo)-Lepticed7-fonto.wav
    )

Noun

fonto (accusative singular

fonton
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fonton#Esperanto
, plural
fontoj
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fontoj#Esperanto
, accusative plural
fontojn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fontojn#Esperanto
)

  1. spring
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spring
    ,
    well
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/well
    (water source),
    fount
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fount
    ,
    fountain
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fountain
    • 1915,
      L. L. Zamenhof
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
      (translator), Malnova Testamento, Genezo 24:43.
      Jen mi staras apud la fonto da akvo.
      Here I stand by the spring.
    Synonym:
    fonteno
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fonteno#Esperanto
  2. (
    figuratively
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#figurative
    )
    source
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/source

Derived terms

  • fontoplumo
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fontoplumo#Esperanto
  • termofonto
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/termofonto#Esperanto

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