font
noun /fɒnt/
/fɑːnt/
- a large stone bowl in a church that holds water for the ceremony of baptism
圣洗池(设于教堂中,常为石造) - the baptismal font
洗礼字体
- the baptismal font
- (specialist) the particular size and style of a set of letters that are used in printing, etc.
字体;字型
词源sense 1 late Old English: from Latin fons, font- ‘spring, fountain’, occurring in the ecclesiastical Latin phrase fons or fontes baptismi ‘baptismal water(s)’. sense 2 late 16th cent. (denoting the action or process of casting or founding): from French fonte, from fondre ‘to melt’.