pont

== English == === Verb === pont (third-person singular simple present ponts, present participle ponting, simple past and past participle ponted) 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern) [ˈpo̞n] IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔnt] IPA(key): (Central, Northwestern) [ˈpɔn] === Noun === pont m (plural ponts) a bridge (construction) 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. a day which falls between a weekend and holiday, which employees will often take off in order to have a long weekend ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === “pont”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “pont”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan) == Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch ponte, borrowed from Latin pontō (“ferryboat”), probably derived from pōns (“bridge”). Compare Luxembourgish Pont. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɔnt Homophone: pond === Noun === pont f (plural ponten, diminutive pontje n) 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 == Franc-Comtois == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French point, from Latin pūnctum. === Noun === pont a point === References === Oberli, Marie-Louis (2006), Patois - Français : Le Djâsaie De Tchie Nos, Glossaire Patois des Franches-Montagnes‎[1] (in French) == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French pont, from Latin pontem. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɔ̃/ (Canada) IPA(key): /põ/ Homophone: ponts Hyphenation: pont === Noun === pont m (plural ponts) bridge (nautical) deck (dentistry, North America) bridge Synonym: (France) bridge ==== Derived terms ==== ==== 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) point full stop, period dot instant (in the plural) points, score ==== Related terms ==== ponte == Hungarian == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈpont] Rhymes: -ont === Adverb === pont 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) point, dot (something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark) point (a specific location or place, seen as a spatial position) point (a particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture) point, section, item (an individual element in a larger whole or a schedule) (law, in a contract) clause, article (law, in an indictment) count (orthography) point, full stop, period (a terminal punctuation mark or a symbol of abbreviation) (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.) (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) (computing) dot (a symbol to separate domain levels such as in a URL or email address) (sports, video games, board games) point (a unit of scoring in a game or competition) (games) pip (one of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.) (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) (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) (economics) point (a unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares) (figuratively) synonym of szempont (“aspect, respect, area”) (figuratively, with the suffix -ig (“up to”)) synonym of mérték (“extent, degree”) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === pont in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN. == Maltese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Sicilian ponti, from Latin pons. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɔnt/ Rhymes: -ɔnt === Noun === pont m (plural pontijiet) bridge == Norman == === Etymology === From Old French pont, from Latin pōns, pontem. === Pronunciation === === Noun === pont m (plural ponts) (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) bridge (construction) ==== Descendants ==== French: pont Norman: pont Walloon: pont == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Hungarian pont. Doublet of punct. === Noun === pont n (plural ponturi) tip, hint cue cinch ==== Declension ==== == Welsh == === 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) bridge Proverb: A fo ben bid bont. Let him who would be a leader be a bridge. ==== Derived terms ==== === Mutation === === 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