ponent
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian ponente (“west”), ultimately from Latin ponent-, ponens, present participle of ponere (“to place”).
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ponent (uncountable)
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ponent (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the west, westerly.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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
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Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin ponentem (“putting, setting”), present active participle of pōnō (“to put, to set”).
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ponent m (plural ponents)
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Etymology 2 edit
From pondre (“to set”).
Noun edit
ponent m or f by sense (plural ponents)
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ponent
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- “ponent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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Verb edit
pōnent
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