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pons
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin p?ns (“bridge”). Doublet of Pontus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?nz/
- Rhymes: -?nz
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 p?ns Varoli?, within the brain stem.
Holonyms
- brain stem, brainstem
Related terms
- pontine
Translations
Anagrams
- NPOs, Nops, OPNs, nops
Catalan
Verb
pons
- second-person singular present indicative form of pondre
Cornish
Noun
pons m (plural ponsow)
- 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)
- punch (tool for punching or drilling holes)
Derived terms
- ponsen
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English punch.
Noun
pons m (uncountable)
- 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
- A bridge, a construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
- (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
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pongs
English
Noun
pongs
- plural of pong
Verb
pongs
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pong
Anagrams
- Spong, spong
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