pons

Borrowed from Latin pōns (“bridge”). Doublet of Pontus.

• (General American) enPR: pŏnz, IPA^(key): /ˈpɑnz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒnz/

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• (General American) enPR: pōnz, IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊnz/ (prescribed)
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊnz/ (prescribed)
• Rhymes: -ɒnz, -ɑnz

pons (plural pontes)

1. (anatomy) A bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ.
2. (neuroanatomy) A band of nerve fibres, from the Latin term pōns Varoliī, within the brain stem.

• brain stem, brainstem

• pontine
• pons asinorum

• NOPs, NPOs, Nops, OPNs, nops

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈpɔns]

pons

1. second-person singular present indicative of pondre

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

pons m (plural ponsow)

1. bridge

• IPA^(key): /pɔns/
• Hyphenation: pons
• Rhymes: -ɔns

Borrowed from German Punze.

pons m (plural ponsen, diminutive ponsje n)

1. punch (tool for punching or drilling holes)

• ponsen

Borrowed from English punch.

pons m (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of punch.

pons

1. (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) second-person singular present indicative of pôr

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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pons/, [põːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pons/, [pɔns]

pōns m (genitive pontis); third declension

1. 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.

2. (nautical) deck
   • c. 117 CE, Tacitus, Annales 2.6:

     Multae pontibus stratae, super quas tormenta veherentur.

     Many (ships) were covered with decks, on which engines for missiles might be conveyed.

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• pōns Varoliī (“bridge of Cōnstantius Varolius / Costanzo Varolio”) (brain stem)
• pōns asinōrum
• ponticulus
• pontifex
• pontō

• pontus

• “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, 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
    
• “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

pons

1. nominative plural of pon