ponent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ponente (“west”), ultimately from Latin ponent-, ponens, present participle of ponere (“to place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊnənt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

ponent (uncountable)

1. The west; the area of the setting sun.

   Synonyms: occident, west

   Antonyms: orient, east, levant

Adjective

ponent (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the west, westerly.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds, Eurus and Zephyr

   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     There was an ambiguity surpassing conjecture in her eyes, and the wind rose up around us in that half barbaric Russian garden with its alien Diana blackened by snows and fierce ponent winds

Anagrams

• Penton, penton

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [puˈnen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [poˈnent]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin ponentem (“putting, setting”), present active participle of pōnō (“to put, to set”).

Noun

ponent m (plural ponents)

1. the place where the sun sets, the west

   Synonyms: occident, oest

2. a wind from the west

Derived terms

• ponentí

Etymology 2

From pondre (“to set”).

Noun

ponent m or f by sense (plural ponents)

1. rapporteur

Derived terms

• ponència

Verb

ponent

1. gerund of pondre

Further reading

• “ponent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Verb

pōnent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of pōnō