fontainier
French, noun/fɔ̃.tɛ.nje/
fontainier is a French masculine noun meaning “a plumber” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui vend des fontaines de grès, de cuivre, etc., pour les usages domestiques”.
What does fontainier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea plumber
- 2
masculinea person who builds fountains
- 3
masculinea turncock
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Celui qui vend des fontaines de grès, de cuivre, etc., pour les usages domestiques. 2. Celui qui est chargé de conduire et de faire aller les fontaines, de les entretenir, de les faire jouer. 3. Personne qui s’occupe d’entretenir le réseau d’eau de la ville de Paris.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fontainier
- fontainiers plural
- fontainière feminine
- fontenier alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fontainier?
- /fɔ̃.tɛ.nje/
- /fɔ̃.te.nje/
- \fɔ̃.tɛ.nje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is fontainier in French?
fontainier appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).