pons
See also: Pons
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin pōns (“bridge”). Doublet of Pontus.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) enPR: pŏnz, IPA(key): /ˈpɑnz/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɒnz/
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- (General American) enPR: pōnz, IPA(key): /ˈpoʊnz/ (prescribed)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊnz/ (prescribed)
- Rhymes: -ɒnz, -ɑnz
Noun edit
pons (plural pontes)
- (anatomy) A bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ.
- (neuroanatomy) A band of nerve fibres, from the Latin term pōns Varoliī, within the brain stem.
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part of the brain
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pons
Cornish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Cornish pons, from Old Cornish pons, from Proto-Brythonic *pont, a borrowing from Latin pōns, pōntem. Cognate with Breton and Welsh pont.
Noun edit
pons m (plural ponsow)
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pons m (plural ponsen, diminutive ponsje n)
- punch (tool for punching or drilling holes)
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pons m (uncountable)
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pons
- (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) second-person singular present indicative of pôr
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *ponts, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, road”), from *pent- (“path”). Cognate with Sanskrit पन्था (pánthā-), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “riverbed”), Old English findan (English find), and Old Church Slavonic пѫть (pǫtĭ, “road”).
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Noun edit
pōns m (genitive pontis); third declension
- A bridge, a construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.6:
- Caesar partitis copiis cum Gaio Fabio legato et Marco Crasso quaestore celeriterque effectis pontibus adit tripertito, aedificia vicosque incendit, magno pecoris atque hominum numero potitur.
- Caesar, having divided his forces with C. Fabius, his lieutenant, and M. Crassus his questor, and having hastily constructed some bridges, enters their country in three divisions, burns their houses and villages, and gets possession of a large number of cattle and men.
- Caesar partitis copiis cum Gaio Fabio legato et Marco Crasso quaestore celeriterque effectis pontibus adit tripertito, aedificia vicosque incendit, magno pecoris atque hominum numero potitur.
- (nautical) deck
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | pōns | pontēs |
Genitive | pontis | pontium |
Dative | pontī | pontibus |
Accusative | pontem | pontēs pontīs |
Ablative | ponte | pontibus |
Vocative | pōns | pontēs |
Derived terms edit
- pōns Varoliī (“bridge of Cōnstantius Varolius / Costanzo Varolio”) (brain stem)
- pōns asinōrum
- ponticulus
- pontifex
- pontō
Descendants edit
- Aromanian: punti f
- Asturian: ponte f, puente m
- Neapolitan: puonti
- Catalan: pont m
- Dalmatian: puant m
- French: pont m
- Friulian: puint m
- Istriot: ponto m
- Italian: ponte m
- Ladin: puent
- Mirandese: puonte f
- Occitan: pònt m
- Old Occitan: Ponce (now a place name and surname)
- Old Galician-Portuguese: ponte f
- Romanian: punte f
- Romansch: punt m
- Sardinian: ponte, ponti
- Sicilian: ponti
- Spanish: puente m
- Venetian: pónte m, pónt
- Walloon: pont
- → Proto-Brythonic: *pont (see there for further descendants)
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References edit
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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.
- to build a bridge over a river: pontem facere in flumine
- to build a bridge over a river: inicere pontem
- there is a bridge over the river: pons est in flumine
- to break down a bridge: pontem dissolvere, rescindere, interscindere (B. G. 2. 9. 4)
- (ambiguous) to build a bridge over a river: flumen ponte iungere
- to build a bridge over a river: pontem facere in flumine
- “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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pons
- nominative plural of pon