different between pontoon vs ponton

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?n?tu?n/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French ponton, from Latin pont?, pont?nem (“ferryboat”), from p?ns (“bridge”).

Noun

pontoon (plural pontoons)

1. (military) A flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge.
2. A floating structure supporting a bridge or dock.

   Synonym: pontoon bridge

3. A box used to raise a sunken vessel.
4. A float of a seaplane.
5. A lighter or barge used for loading or unloading ships.

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from vingt-un, an obsolete variant of vingt-et-un (“twenty-one”), from French.

Noun

pontoon (uncountable)

1. (card games) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.

   Synonym: vingt-et-un

See also

• baccarat
• blackjack
• twenty-one

English

Etymology

French

Noun

ponton (plural pontons)

1. Alternative form of pontoon.

Esperanto

Noun

ponton

1. accusative singular of ponto

French

Etymology

From Old French ponton, from Latin pont?nem, singular accusative of pont? (“ferryboat”), from p?ns (“bridge”); equivalent to pont +? -on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t??/

Noun

ponton m (plural pontons)

1. (military) pontoon
2. (nautical) pontoon (floating structure supporting a bridge or dock)
3. (nautical) pontoon (the boat)

Related terms

• pont

Further reading

• “ponton” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ponton]
• Hyphenation: pon?ton

Etymology 1

Noun

ponton (plural pontonok)

1. pontoon, a floating structure supporting a bridge or dock
2. (military) pontoon, a flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge

Declension

Derived terms

• pontonhíd

Etymology 2

pont +? -on

Noun

ponton

1. superessive singular of pont

Further reading

• ponton in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Polish

Etymology

From French ponton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?n.t?n/

Noun

ponton m inan (diminutive pontonik)

1. (nautical) raft, dinghy (small inflatable boat)
2. pontoon (floating structure)

Declension

Derived terms

• (noun) pontoniak
• (adjective) pontonowy

Related terms

• (noun) pontonier
• (adjective) pontonierski

Further reading

• ponton in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ponton in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French ponton.

Noun

ponton n (plural pontoane)

1. pontoon

Declension