pons

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin pōns (“bridge”). Doublet of Pontus. === Pronunciation === (General American) enPR: pŏnz, IPA(key): /ˈpɑnz/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɒnz/ (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. ==== Holonyms ==== brain stem, brainstem ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== pontine pons asinorum ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === NOPs, NPOs, Nops, OPNs, nops == Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern) [ˈpo̞ns] IPA(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈpɔns] === Verb === pons second-person singular present indicative of pondre == 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 ponsyow) bridge ==== Derived terms ==== === Mutation === == Dutch == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɔns/ Hyphenation: pons Rhymes: -ɔns === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from German Punze. ==== Noun ==== pons m (plural ponsen, diminutive ponsje n) punch (tool for punching or drilling holes) ===== Derived terms ===== ponsen ===== Descendants ===== → Indonesian: pons === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from English punch. ==== Noun ==== pons m (uncountable, no diminutive) obsolete form of punch (“punch (beverage)”) == Galician == === Verb === pons (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) second-person singular present indicative of pôr == Indonesian == === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈpons/ [ˈpons] Rhymes: -ons Syllabification: pons === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Dutch pons (“punch”), from German Punze. ==== Noun ==== pons (plural pons-pons) punch === Etymology 2 === Learned borrowing from Latin pōns (“bridge”). ==== Noun ==== pons (plural pons-pons) (anatomy, neuroanatomy) pons === Further reading === “pons”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *ponts, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s (“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): [ˈpõːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpɔns] === Noun === pōns m (genitive pontis); third declension A bridge, a construction or natural feature that spans a divide. (nautical) deck ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== pōns Varoliī (“bridge of Cōnstantius Varolius / Costanzo Varolio”) (brain stem) pōns asinōrum ponticulus pontifex pontō ==== Descendants ==== === See also === pontus === 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, 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. “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