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4-letter words (1 found)

PONT,

3-letter words (5 found)

NOT,OPT,POT,TON,TOP,

2-letter words (5 found)

NO,ON,OP,PO,TO,

You can make 11 words from pont according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of pont

pont opnt pnot npot onpt nopt potn optn pton tpon otpn topn pnto npto ptno tpno ntpo tnpo ontp notp otnp tonp ntop tnop

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Definitions and meaning of pont

pont

Verb

pont (third-person singular simple present ponts, present participle ponting, simple past and past participle ponted)

  1. to pose until nearly frozen in all sorts of uncomfortable positions.

Related terms

  • ponting

See also

  • tête-de-pont

References

  • Blumenfeld, J. (2009). You Want To Go Where? How to Get Someone to Pay for the Trip of Your Dreams. United States: Skyhorse Publishing

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan pont, from Latin pontem, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, road”), from *pent- (“path”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈpɔn]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈpɔnt]

Noun

pont m (plural ponts)

  1. a bridge (construction)
  2. 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.
  3. a day which falls between a weekend and holiday, which employees will often take off in order to have a long weekend

Derived terms

Related terms

References

  • “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

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ponte, borrowed from Latin pontō (“ferryboat”), probably derived from pōns (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔnt
  • Homophone: pond

Noun

pont c (plural ponten, diminutive pontje n)

  1. ferry, ferryboat

Derived terms

  • veerpont

Descendants

  • Berbice Creole Dutch: pondo
  • → Papiamentu: ponchi, pontsje (from the diminutive)
  • → Sranan Tongo: ponti, pontoe, ponki, pondo
    • → Caribbean Javanese: pondo

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French pont, from Latin pontem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔ̃/
  • Homophone: ponts
  • Hyphenation: pont

Noun

pont m (plural ponts)

  1. bridge
  2. deck
  3. (dentistry, Canada) bridge
    Synonym: (France) bridge

Derived terms

Related terms

  • pontife
  • ponton

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: pon
  • → Vietnamese: boong

Further reading

  • “pont”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin punctum.

Noun

pont m (plural ponts)

  1. point
  2. full stop, period
  3. dot
  4. instant
  5. (in the plural) points, score

Related terms

  • ponte

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpont]
  • Rhymes: -ont

Adverb

pont

  1. 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.

Synonyms

  • épp
  • éppen, pontosan (not in all contexts)

Noun

pont (plural pontok)

  1. point, dot (something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark)
  2. point (a specific location or place, seen as a spatial position)
  3. point (a particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture)
  4. point, section, item (an individual element in a larger whole or a schedule)
  5. (law, in a contract) clause, article
  6. (law, in an indictment) count
  7. (orthography) point, full stop, period (a terminal punctuation mark or a symbol of abbreviation)
  8. (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.)
  9. (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)
  10. (computing) dot (a symbol to separate domain levels such as in a URL or email address)
  11. (sports, video games, board games) point (a unit of scoring in a game or competition)
  12. (games) pip (one of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.)
  13. (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)
  14. (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)
  15. (economics) point (a unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares)
  16. (figuratively) Synonym of szempont (“aspect, respect, area”)
  17. (figuratively, with the suffix -ig (“up to”)) Synonym of mérték (“extent, degree”)

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References

Further reading

  • 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian ponti, from Latin pons.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔnt/

Noun

pont m (plural pontijiet)

  1. bridge

Norman

Etymology

From Old French pont, from Latin pōns, pontem.

Pronunciation

Noun

pont m (plural ponts)

  1. (Jersey) bridge

Old French

Etymology

From Latin pōns, pontem.

Noun

pont oblique singular, m (oblique plural ponz or pontz, nominative singular ponz or pontz, nominative plural pont)

  1. bridge (construction)

Descendants

  • French: pont
  • Norman: pont
  • Walloon: pont

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian pont. Doublet of punct.

Noun

pont n (plural ponturi)

  1. tip, hint
  2. cue
  3. cinch

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh pont, from Old Welsh pont, from Proto-Brythonic *pont, a borrowing from Latin pōns, pōntem. Cognate with Cornish pons, Breton pont.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔnt/

Noun

pont f (plural pontydd)

  1. bridge
    • Proverb:
      A fo ben bid bont.
      Let him who would be a leader be a bridge.

Derived terms

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Further reading

  • 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

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