ponte

• puente

From Latin pōns, pontem

ponte f (plural pontes)

1. bridge

ponte

1. font

Nominalized form of an old past participle of pondre.[1]

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̃t/
• Homophones: pontent, pontes

ponte f (plural pontes)

1. laying of eggs[2]
2. laying season[2]

   Synonym: pondaison

ponte m (plural pontes)

1. "punter (cards)"[3]

ponte

1. first-person singular present indicative of ponter

ponte

1. third-person singular present indicative of ponter

ponte

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of ponter

ponte

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of ponter

ponte

1. second-person singular imperative of ponter

• “ponte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ponte, from Latin pōns, pontem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔnte̝/

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ponte f (plural pontes)

1. bridge
2. (nautical) bridge; the deck from which a ship is controlled
3. the crossbeam of a yoke
4. long weekend; a day which falls between two work-free days (holidays or weekend days), on which leave is preferred

• pontón

• “ponte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “ponte” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “ponte” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “ponte” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ponte” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpon.te/

ponte (plural pontes)

1. bridge

From Latin pontem, accusative case of pōns, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, road”), from *pent- (“path”). Compare French pont, Romanian punte, Romansch punt, Spanish puente.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpon.te/

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• Stress: pónte
• Hyphenation: pon‧te

ponte m (plural ponti)

1. bridge (structure)
2. deck (nautical and aviation)
3. long weekend; a day which falls between two work-free days (holidays or weekend days), on which leave is preferred

• pontile
• piano di volo

• pontefice
• pontone

• pento

See pontus

ponte

1. vocative singular of pontus

See pons

ponte

1. ablative singular of pons

From Old Portuguese ponte, from Latin pontem, accusative singular of pōns, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, road”), from *pent- (“path”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpõ.tɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpõ.tʃi/
• Hyphenation: pon‧te

ponte f (plural pontes)

1. bridge (construction or natural feature that spans a divide)
2. (medicine) bypass (a passage created around a damaged organ)
3. (figuratively) bridge (anything that connects separate things)
4. long weekend; a day which falls between two work-free days (holidays or weekend days), on which leave is preferred

• (bypass): bypass

• pontífice
• pontão

ponte

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of poner, pon and the pronoun te.