Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - font

 I. noun  Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin ~-, fons, from Latin, fountain  Date: before 12th century  1.  a. a receptacle for baptismal water  b. a receptacle for holy water  c. a receptacle for various liquids  2. source, fountain a ~ of information  • ~al adjective  II. noun  Etymology: French ~e, from Middle French, act of founding, from Vulgar Latin *fundita, feminine of funditus, past participle of Latin fundere to found, pour — more at found  Date: circa 1688 an assortment or set of type or characters all of one style and sometimes one size