pont

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.

• ponting

• tête-de-pont

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

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

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

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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

• “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.

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

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• Rhymes: -ɔnt
• Homophone: pond

pont c (plural ponten, diminutive pontje n)

1. ferry, ferryboat

• veerpont

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

Inherited from Old French pont, from Latin pontem.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̃/

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• Homophone: ponts
• Hyphenation: pont

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, Canada) bridge

   Synonym: (France) bridge

• pontife
• ponton

• Haitian Creole: pon
• → Vietnamese: boong

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

From Latin punctum.

pont m (plural ponts)

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

• ponte

Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum.[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpont]

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• Rhymes: -ont

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.

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

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”)

• 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

Borrowed from Sicilian ponti, from Latin pons.

• IPA^(key): /pɔnt/

pont m (plural pontijiet)

1. bridge

From Old French pont, from Latin pōns, pontem.

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pont m (plural ponts)

1. (Jersey) bridge

From Latin pōns, pontem.

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

1. bridge (construction)

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

Borrowed from Hungarian pont. Doublet of punct.

pont n (plural ponturi)

1. tip, hint
2. cue
3. cinch

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

• IPA^(key): /pɔnt/

pont f (plural pontydd)

1. bridge
   • Proverb:

     A fo ben bid bont.

     Let him who would be a leader be a bridge.

• 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