pons
See also: Pons
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pōns (“bridge”). Doublet of Pontus.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: pŏnz, IPA(key): /ˈpɑnz/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɒnz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) enPR: pōnz, IPA(key): /ˈpoʊnz/ (prescribed)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊnz/ (prescribed)
- Rhymes: -ɒnz, -ɑnz
Noun
pons (plural pontes)
- (anatomy) A bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ.
- (neuroanatomy) A band of nerve fibres, from the Latin term pōns Varoliī, within the brain stem.
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part of the brain
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Verb
pons
Cornish
Etymology
From Middle Cornish pons, from Old Cornish pons, from Proto-Brythonic *pont, a borrowing from Latin pōns, pōntem. Cognate with Breton and Welsh pont.
Noun
pons m (plural ponsow)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
pons m (plural ponsen, diminutive ponsje n)
- punch (tool for punching or drilling holes)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
pons m (uncountable)
Galician
Verb
pons
- (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) second-person singular present indicative of pôr
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *ponts, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, road”), from *pent- (“path”). Cognate with Sanskrit पन्था (pánthā-), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “riverbed”), Old English findan (English find), and Old Church Slavonic пѫть (pǫtĭ, “road”). Doublet of Pontus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pons/, [põːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pons/, [pɔns]
Noun
pōns m (genitive pontis); third declension
- A bridge, a construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.6:
- Caesar partitis copiis cum Gaio Fabio legato et Marco Crasso quaestore celeriterque effectis pontibus adit tripertito, aedificia vicosque incendit, magno pecoris atque hominum numero potitur.
- Caesar, having divided his forces with C. Fabius, his lieutenant, and M. Crassus his questor, and having hastily constructed some bridges, enters their country in three divisions, burns their houses and villages, and gets possession of a large number of cattle and men.
- Caesar partitis copiis cum Gaio Fabio legato et Marco Crasso quaestore celeriterque effectis pontibus adit tripertito, aedificia vicosque incendit, magno pecoris atque hominum numero potitur.
- (nautical) deck
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pōns | pontēs |
Genitive | pontis | pontium |
Dative | pontī | pontibus |
Accusative | pontem | pontēs pontīs |
Ablative | ponte | pontibus |
Vocative | pōns | pontēs |
Derived terms
- pōns Varoliī (“bridge of Cōnstantius Varolius / Costanzo Varolio”) (brain stem)
- pōns asinōrum
- ponticulus
- pontifex
- pontō
Descendants
- Aromanian: punti f
- Asturian: ponte f, puente m
- Neapolitan: puonti
- Catalan: pont m
- Dalmatian: puant m
- French: pont m
- Friulian: puint m
- Istriot: ponto m
- Italian: ponte m
- Ladin: puent
- Mirandese: puonte f
- Occitan: pònt m
- Old Occitan: Ponce (now a place name and surname)
- Old Galician-Portuguese: ponte f
- Romanian: punte f
- Romansch: punt f, pùnt f
- Sardinian: ponte, ponti
- Sicilian: ponti
- Spanish: puente m
- Venetian: pónte m, pónt
- Walloon: pont
- → Proto-Brythonic: *pont (see there for further descendants)
See also
References
- “pons”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pons”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pons in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pons in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to build a bridge over a river: pontem facere in flumine
- to build a bridge over a river: inicere pontem
- there is a bridge over the river: pons est in flumine
- to break down a bridge: pontem dissolvere, rescindere, interscindere (B. G. 2. 9. 4)
- (ambiguous) to build a bridge over a river: flumen ponte iungere
- to build a bridge over a river: pontem facere in flumine
- “pons”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pons”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 479-480
Volapük
Noun
pons
- nominative plural of pon
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