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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?ns (“bridge”). Doublet of Pontus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nz/
• Rhymes: -?nz

Noun

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 p?ns Varoli?, within the brain stem.

Holonyms

• brain stem, brainstem

Related terms

• pontine

Translations

Anagrams

• NPOs, Nops, OPNs, nops

Catalan

Verb

pons

1. second-person singular present indicative form of pondre

Cornish

Noun

pons m (plural ponsow)

1. bridge

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ns/
• Hyphenation: pons
• Rhymes: -?ns

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Punze.

Noun

pons m (plural ponsen, diminutive ponsje n)

1. punch (tool for punching or drilling holes)

Derived terms

• ponsen

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English punch.

Noun

pons m (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of punch.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pónteh?s (“path, road”), from *pent- (“path”). Cognate with Sanskrit ????? (páthin), Ancient Greek ?????? (póntos), Old Armenian ???? (hun, “riverbed”), Old English findan (English find), and Old Church Slavonic ???? (p?t?, “road”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pons/, [põ?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pons/, [p?ns]

Noun

p?ns m (genitive pontis); third declension

1. A bridge, a construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
2. (nautical) deck

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• p?ns Varoli? (“bridge of C?nstantius Varolius / Costanzo Varolio”) (brain stem)
• p?ns asin?rum
• ponticulus
• pontifex
• pont?

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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

English

Noun

pions

1. plural of pion

Anagrams

• Sinop, Spino, inspo, opsin, psion, spino-

French

Noun

pions m

1. plural of pion

Swedish

Noun

pions

1. indefinite genitive singular of pion

Anagrams

• spion