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   font

   /fɒnt/

   noun

   • 1. a receptacle in a church for the water used in baptism, typically a free-standing stone structure.
   • 2. a reservoir for oil in an oil lamp.
   • 3. a source of a desirable quality or commodity; a fount: "they dip down into the font of wisdom"

   Word Origin late Old English: from Latin fons, font- ‘spring, fountain’, occurring in the ecclesiastical Latin phrase fons or fontes baptismi ‘baptismal water(s’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. fontal adjective

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • F

     4

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

     1

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