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Old French
Etymology
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Noun
fontenelle oblique singular, f (oblique plural fontenelles, nominative singular fontenelle, nominative plural fontenelles)
- any place where two bones fuse together
- (in particular) fontanelle
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fontenelle, supplement)