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pons opns pnos npos onps nops posn opsn pson spon ospn sopn pnso npso psno spno nspo snpo onsp nosp osnp sonp nsop snop

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Definitions and meaning of pons

pons

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pōns (“bridge”). Doublet of Pontus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: pŏnz, IPA^(key): /ˈpɑnz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒnz/
• (General American) enPR: pōnz, IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊnz/ (prescribed)
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊnz/ (prescribed)
• Rhymes: -ɒnz, -ɑnz

Noun

pons (plural pontes)

1. (anatomy) A bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ.
2. (neuroanatomy) A band of nerve fibres, from the Latin term pōns Varoliī, within the brain stem.

Holonyms

• brain stem, brainstem

Related terms

• pontine
• pons asinorum

Translations

Anagrams

• NOPs, NPOs, Nops, OPNs, nops

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Verb

pons

1. second-person singular present indicative of pondre

Cornish

Etymology

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

pons m (plural ponsow)

1. bridge

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔns/
• Hyphenation: pons
• Rhymes: -ɔns

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Punze.

Noun

pons m (plural ponsen, diminutive ponsje n)

1. punch (tool for punching or drilling holes)

Derived terms

• ponsen

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English punch.

Noun

pons m (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of punch.

Galician

Verb

pons

1. (reintegrationist norm, less recommended) second-person singular present indicative of pôr

Latin

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pons/, [põːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pons/, [pɔns]

Noun

pōns m (genitive pontis); third declension

1. A bridge, a construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
2. (nautical) deck

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• pōns Varoliī (“bridge of Cōnstantius Varolius / Costanzo Varolio”) (brain stem)
• pōns asinōrum
• ponticulus
• pontifex
• pontō

Descendants

See also

• pontus

References

• “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.
• “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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Noun

pons

1. nominative plural of pon