fontina
noun
fontina is a noun meaning “A pale yellow cheese from Valle d'Aosta in Italy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-N-T-I-N-A, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fontina is fontinas.
What does fontina mean?
noun
- 1
A pale yellow cheese from Valle d'Aosta in Italy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fontina
- fontinas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fontina?
Fontina appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fontina come from?
From Italian fontina. The name likely originates from either the Fontin mountain pasture or the village of Fontinaz in the Aosta Valley, where the cheese is traditionally produced.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).