pont

See also: Pont

English

Verb

pont (third-person singular simple present ponts, present participle ponting, simple past and past participle ponted)

1. to pose until nearly frozen in all sorts of uncomfortable positions.

Related terms

• ponting

See also

• tête-de-pont

References

• Blumenfeld, J. (2009). You Want To Go Where? How to Get Someone to Pay for the Trip of Your Dreams. United States: Skyhorse Publishing

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan pont, from Latin pontem, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, road”), from *pent- (“path”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɔn]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔnt]

• Audio:

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Noun

pont m (plural ponts)

1. a bridge (construction)
2. any of various objects or structures resembling a bridge, such as the bridge of violin, a dental prosthesis, a piece of tissue connecting two parts of an organ, etc.
3. a day which falls between a weekend and holiday, which employees will often take off in order to have a long weekend

Derived terms

• pont llevadís
• pontarró
• pontatge
• pontet

 

Related terms

• pontífex
• pontó

 

References

• “pont” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pont” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ponte, borrowed from Latin pontō (“ferryboat”), probably derived from pōns (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔnt
• Homophone: pond

Noun

pont c (plural ponten, diminutive pontje n)

1. ferry, ferryboat

Derived terms

• veerpont

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: pondo
• → Papiamentu: ponchi, pontsje (from the diminutive)
• → Sranan Tongo: ponti, pontoe, ponki, pondo
  • → Caribbean Javanese: pondo

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French pont, from Latin pontem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̃/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /põ/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Homophone: ponts
• Hyphenation: pont

Noun

pont m (plural ponts)

1. bridge
   • Sur le pont d’Avignon / L’on y danse, l’on y danse / Sur le pont d’Avignon / L’on y danse tous en rond

     On the bridge of Avignon / We all dance there, we all dance there / On the bridge of Avignon / We all dance there in a ring

     ( ^W)

2. deck
3. (dentistry, North America) bridge

   Synonym: (France) bridge

Derived terms

• couper les ponts
• coûter un pont
• Dupont
• faire le pont
• grand pont
• petit pont
• ponceau
• pont aérien
• pont disulfure
• pont d’or
• pont suspendu
• pont tournant
• pont-levis
• pontage
• ponter
• tête de pont

 

Related terms

• pontife
• ponton

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: pon
• → Vietnamese: boong

Further reading

• “pont”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin punctum.

Noun

pont m (plural ponts)

1. point
2. full stop, period
3. dot
4. instant
5. (in the plural) points, score

Related terms

• ponte

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpont]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ont

Adverb

pont

1. exactly, just, precisely

   Pont ez a lényeg. ― That’s exactly the point about it.

   Pont fordítva mondtad. ― You’ve said it just the other way round.

   Pont ma beszéltünk erről. ― We just talked about that this very day / just today.

Synonyms

• épp
• éppen, pontosan (not in all contexts)

Noun

pont (plural pontok)

1. point, dot (something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark)
2. point (a specific location or place, seen as a spatial position)
3. point (a particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture)
4. point, section, item (an individual element in a larger whole or a schedule)
5. (law, in a contract) clause, article
6. (law, in an indictment) count
7. (orthography) point, full stop, period (a terminal punctuation mark or a symbol of abbreviation)
8. (typography) dot, point (a diacritical mark or accent mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḃ, Ḅ, Ċ, or in Semitic languages to indicate vowels, stress, etc.)
9. (typography) point (a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch, i.e., 0.3759 mm; exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era)
10. (computing) dot (a symbol to separate domain levels such as in a URL or email address)
11. (sports, video games, board games) point (a unit of scoring in a game or competition)
12. (games) pip (one of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.)
13. (mathematics, sciences) point (a zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction)
14. (music) point (a dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time; in modern music, placed on the right of a note to prolong its time by one half)
15. (economics) point (a unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares)
16. (figuratively) Synonym of szempont (“aspect, respect, area”)
17. (figuratively, with the suffix -ig (“up to”)) Synonym of mérték (“extent, degree”)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pont	pontok
accusative	pontot	pontokat
dative	pontnak	pontoknak
instrumental	ponttal	pontokkal
causal-final	pontért	pontokért
translative	ponttá	pontokká
terminative	pontig	pontokig
essive-formal	pontként	pontokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pontban	pontokban
superessive	ponton	pontokon
adessive	pontnál	pontoknál
illative	pontba	pontokba
sublative	pontra	pontokra
allative	ponthoz	pontokhoz
elative	pontból	pontokból
delative	pontról	pontokról
ablative	ponttól	pontoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	ponté	pontoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	pontéi	pontokéi

Possessive forms of pont
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pontom	pontjaim
2nd person sing.	pontod	pontjaid
3rd person sing.	pontja	pontjai
1st person plural	pontunk	pontjaink
2nd person plural	pontotok	pontjaitok
3rd person plural	pontjuk	pontjaik

Derived terms

• p. (abbreviation)
• pontatlan
• pontos

 

Compound words with this term at the beginning

• pontérték
• pontméret
• pontmutáció
• pontszám

 

Compound words with this term at the end

• álláspont
• bázispont
• célpont
• csomópont
• Didot-pont
• díszpont
• fagyáspont
• fagypont
• feketepont
• felezőpont
• fénypont
• fixpont
• forgáspont
• forráspont
• gyulladáspont
• hármaspont
• hárompont-jel
• holtpont
• időpont
• kettőspont
• képpont
• kiindulópont
• középpont
• központ
• menüpont
• mélypont
• nézőpont
• nyeregpont
• oltópont
• olvadáspont
• pirospont
• súlypont
• százalékpont
• szempont
• tizedespont
• végpont

 

Expressions

• érintési pont
• stacionárius pont

 

Further reading

• pont in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian ponti, from Latin pons.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔnt/

Noun

pont m (plural pontijiet)

1. bridge

Norman

Etymology

From Old French pont, from Latin pōns, pontem.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

  (file)

Noun

pont m (plural ponts)

1. (Jersey) bridge

Old French

Etymology

From Latin pōns, pontem.

Noun

pont oblique singular, m (oblique plural ponz or pontz, nominative singular ponz or pontz, nominative plural pont)

1. bridge (construction)

Descendants

• French: pont
• Norman: pont
• Walloon: pont

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian pont. Doublet of punct.

Noun

pont n (plural ponturi)

1. tip, hint
2. cue
3. cinch

Declension

Declension of pont

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pont	pontul	(niște) ponturi	ponturile
genitive/dative	(unui) pont	pontului	(unor) ponturi	ponturilor
vocative	pontule		ponturilor

Welsh

pont

Etymology

From Middle Welsh pont, from Old Welsh pont, from Proto-Brythonic *pont, a borrowing from Latin pōns, pontem. Cognate with Cornish pons, Breton pont.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔnt/

Noun

pont f (plural pontydd)

1. bridge
   • Proverb:

     A fo ben bid bont.

     Let him who would be a leader be a bridge.

Derived terms

• fforddbont (“viaduct”)
• Pont-y-pŵl (“Pontypool”)
• pontio (“to bridge; to transition”)
• traphont (“viaduct, aqueduct”)

 

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pont	bont	mhont	phont
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pont”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies