pont
English edit
Verb edit
pont (third-person singular simple present ponts, present participle ponting, simple past and past participle ponted)
- to pose until nearly frozen in all sorts of uncomfortable positions.
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Catalan pont, from Latin pontem, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, road”), from *pent- (“path”).
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Noun edit
pont m (plural ponts)
- a bridge (construction)
- any of various objects or structures resembling a bridge, such as the bridge of violin, a dental prosthesis, a piece of tissue connecting two parts of an organ, etc.
- a day which falls between a weekend and holiday, which employees will often take off in order to have a long weekend
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References edit
- “pont” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pont” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch ponte, borrowed from Latin pontō (“ferryboat”), probably derived from pōns (“bridge”).
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Noun edit
pont c (plural ponten, diminutive pontje n)
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French pont, from Latin pontem.
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Noun edit
pont m (plural ponts)
- bridge
- Sur le pont d’Avignon / L’on y danse, l’on y danse / Sur le pont d’Avignon / L’on y danse tous en rond
- On the bridge of Avignon / We all dance there, we all dance there / On the bridge of Avignon / We all dance there in a ring
- ( W)
- deck
- (dentistry, Canada) bridge
- Synonym: (France) bridge
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Further reading edit
- “pont”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
pont m (plural ponts)
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Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum.[1][2]
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Adverb edit
pont
- exactly, just, precisely
- Pont ez a lényeg. ― That’s exactly the point about it.
- Pont fordítva mondtad. ― You’ve said it just the other way round.
- Pont ma beszéltünk erről. ― We just talked about that this very day / just today.
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Noun edit
pont (plural pontok)
- point, dot (something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark)
- point (a specific location or place, seen as a spatial position)
- point (a particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture)
- point, section, item (an individual element in a larger whole or a schedule)
- (law, in a contract) clause, article
- (law, in an indictment) count
- (orthography) point, full stop, period (a terminal punctuation mark or a symbol of abbreviation)
- (typography) dot, point (a diacritical mark or accent mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḃ, Ḅ, Ċ, or in Semitic languages to indicate vowels, stress, etc.)
- (typography) point (a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch, i.e., 0.3759 mm; exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era)
- (computing) dot (a symbol to separate domain levels such as in a URL or email address)
- (sports, video games, board games) point (a unit of scoring in a game or competition)
- (games) pip (one of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.)
- (mathematics, sciences) point (a zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction)
- (music) point (a dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time; in modern music, placed on the right of a note to prolong its time by one half)
- (economics) point (a unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares)
- (figuratively) Synonym of szempont (“aspect, respect, area”)
- (figuratively, with the suffix -ig (“up to”)) Synonym of mérték (“extent, degree”)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | pont | pontok |
accusative | pontot | pontokat |
dative | pontnak | pontoknak |
instrumental | ponttal | pontokkal |
causal-final | pontért | pontokért |
translative | ponttá | pontokká |
terminative | pontig | pontokig |
essive-formal | pontként | pontokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | pontban | pontokban |
superessive | ponton | pontokon |
adessive | pontnál | pontoknál |
illative | pontba | pontokba |
sublative | pontra | pontokra |
allative | ponthoz | pontokhoz |
elative | pontból | pontokból |
delative | pontról | pontokról |
ablative | ponttól | pontoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
ponté | pontoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
pontéi | pontokéi |
Possessive forms of pont | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | pontom | pontjaim |
2nd person sing. | pontod | pontjaid |
3rd person sing. | pontja | pontjai |
1st person plural | pontunk | pontjaink |
2nd person plural | pontotok | pontjaitok |
3rd person plural | pontjuk | pontjaik |
Derived terms edit
- álláspont
- bázispont
- célpont
- csomópont
- Didot-pont
- díszpont
- fagyáspont
- fagypont
- feketepont
- felezőpont
- fénypont
- fixpont
- forgáspont
- forráspont
- gyulladáspont
- hármaspont
- hárompont-jel
- holtpont
- időpont
- kettőspont
- képpont
- kiindulópont
- középpont
- központ
- menüpont
- mélypont
- nézőpont
- nyeregpont
- oltópont
- olvadáspont
- pirospont
- súlypont
- százalékpont
- szempont
- tizedespont
- végpont
References edit
- ^ pont in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- ^ pont in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
Further reading edit
- pont in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Maltese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sicilian ponti, from Latin pons.
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Noun edit
pont m (plural pontijiet)
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French pont, from Latin pōns, pontem.
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Audio (Jersey) (file)
Noun edit
pont m (plural ponts)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pōns, pontem.
Noun edit
pont oblique singular, m (oblique plural ponz or pontz, nominative singular ponz or pontz, nominative plural pont)
- bridge (construction)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hungarian pont. Doublet of punct.
Noun edit
pont n (plural ponturi)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) pont | pontul | (niște) ponturi | ponturile |
genitive/dative | (unui) pont | pontului | (unor) ponturi | ponturilor |
vocative | pontule | ponturilor |
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Welsh pont, from Old Welsh pont, from Proto-Brythonic *pont, a borrowing from Latin pōns, pōntem. Cognate with Cornish pons, Breton pont.
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Noun edit
pont f (plural pontydd)
- bridge
- Proverb:
- A fo ben bid bont.
- Let him who would be a leader be a bridge.
- A fo ben bid bont.
- Proverb:
Derived terms edit
- fforddbont (“viaduct”)
- Pont-y-pŵl (“Pontypool”)
- pontio (“to bridge; to transition”)
- traphont (“viaduct, aqueduct”)
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
pont | bont | mhont | phont |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pont”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies