"Las fuentes"
Translation:The fountains
42 Comments
- 22
- 21
- 8
Among the pre-reformation humanists there was a Latin phrase they loved to use: "Ad fontes" (to the sources/fountains)!
The idea is that the intellectual sources were the fountains from which the stream of their thought came, so if you wanted to understand ideas, the best place to go was the fountain from which the river of the idea flows: so, Ad Fontes!
Maybe that'll help someone other than just me to remember the word, if not, maybe it'll just be a fun bit of historical trivia (well... I think it's fun anyway).
Is "a source" referring to a source of information or a source of water, since the other choices are spring and such.
- 20
- 14
- 13
- 7
- 7
"La fuente" was previously translated as "the font." However, "Las fuentes" did not accept "the fonts" as an answer. Is that an oversight, or..?
- 21
- 9
- 3
- 3
- 2
Yes, it's an oversight. La fuente / las fuentes is pretty much a direct equivalent of "font" in English; it originally meant only "source" (of water or anything else) and now also means "typeface" (also written in Spanish as "tipo de letra"). If any synonym for those is not accepted, you should report it.
- 11
- 103
The primary word for "Spring" is "manantial".
http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/manantial
- 14
- 12
- 9
- 7
- 7
- 6
- 5
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 2
- 2
I'm sure I've also heard this word used for large food recipients - as in buffet restaurants.
Should also accept "the platter," i.e. a serving tray. I reported it, but just FYI.
