fontos
Hungarian
Etymology
font (“pound”) + -os (“adjective-forming suffix”), literally "the weight of a pound, heavy"[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfontoʃ]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: fon‧tos
Adjective
fontos (comparative fontosabb, superlative legfontosabb)
- important
- Synonyms: lényeges, jelentős
- Antonyms: lényegtelen, jelentéktelen
- (after a numeral) -pound, of the value or weight of a given pounds
- tízfontos bankjegy ― a ten-pound note
Declension
Derived terms
References
- Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6
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