fontとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /fɒnt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɑnt/
• 韻: -ɒnt

語源 1

From 古期英語 font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).

名詞

font (複数形 fonts)

1. (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.

   Synonym: stoup

   Hyponym: baptismal font

   • 1791, Christopher Smart, “Moderation”, in Hymns for the Amusement of Children:

     Blessed be God, that, at the font, /⁠ My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all.

   • 1913, John Bertram Peterson, “Baptismal Font”, in Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 2:

     In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]

2. A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
3. (figuratively) Spring, source, fountain.
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.

派生語

語源 2

Borrowed from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

別の表記

• fount (英国用法)

名詞

font (複数形 fonts)

1. (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
   1. In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
   2. In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
   3. In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
2. (computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
3. (computing, typography) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.

派生語

派生した語

• Thai: ฟอนต์ (fɔ́n)

動詞

font (三人称単数 現在形 fonts, 現在分詞 fonting, 過去形および過去分詞形 fonted)

1. (television, colloquial, transitive) To overlay (text) on the picture.
   • 1981, William Safire, On language (page 78)

     When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.

   • 1987, The Foundation Center, Promoting issues & ideas: a guide to public relations for nonprofit organizations (page 97)

     […] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.

参照

• “font” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. →ISBN.

語源 3

Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).

名詞

font (複数形 fonts)

1. (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
   • 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V

     A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
     The arts of which these lands were once the font

   • 1910 — Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II

     As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.

   • 1915 — Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address

     I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.

Further reading

• font on Wikipedia.
• holy water font on Wikipedia.
• baptismal font on Wikipedia.