fountainhead

fountainhead

English

Etymology

fountain +‎ head

Noun

fountainhead (plural fountainheads)

1. A spring that is the source of a river.
2. An abundant source of knowledge, etc.

Translations

a spring that is the source of a river

Armenian: աղբերակ (hy) (աղբերակ) Chinese: Mandarin: 源頭／源头 (zh) (yuántóu), 水源 (zh) (shuǐyuán) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: alkulähde (fi) German: Quelle (de) f Greek: βρυσομάνα (el) f (vrysomána) Hungarian: kútfő (hu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: سەرچاوە‎ (ku) (serçawe) Maori: mātāwai

an abundant source of knowledge, etc.

Chinese: Mandarin: 本源 (zh) (běnyuán) Finnish: lähde (fi) German: Ursprung (de) m, Quelle (de) f Hungarian: kútfő (hu), kútforrás Italian: sorgente (it) f, fonte (it) f Manx: ard-phersoon m

References

• “fountainhead”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.