ponto

From French pont

• IPA^(key): /ˈponto/

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• Hyphenation: pon‧to

ponto (accusative singular ponton, plural pontoj, accusative plural pontojn)

1. bridge

   La ponto estis konstruita super la rivero.

   The bridge was built over the river.

From Esperanto ponto, from French pont, Italian ponte, Spanish puente, ultimately from Latin pontem, accusative singular of pōns, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s, from *pent-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpon.to/, /ˈpɔn.tɔ/

ponto (plural ponti)

1. bridge; culvert; gangplank, gangway

• ponteto (“footbridge, culvert, gangway”)
  • kordoponteto (“bridge (of a violin)”)

From Latin pōns, pontem.

ponto m

1. bridge

Borrowed from Latin pontus, from Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔn.to/, [ˈpɔn̪t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ɔnto
• Stress: pònto
• Hyphenation: pon‧to

ponto m (plural ponti)

1. (literary) sea

   Synonyms: mare, pelago (literary)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.toː/, [ˈpɔn.toː]

From pōns (“bridge”).

pontō m (genitive pontōnis); third declension

1. ferryboat

Third declension i-stem.

pontō

1. dative singular of pontus
2. ablative singular of pontus

• ponto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ponto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ponto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• ponto in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

ponto

1. deer

• Li, Fengxiang and Lindsay J. Whaley, Oroqen vocabulary, in Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database, Munich: Max Planck Digital Library (2009)

• poncto (obsolete)

From Old Portuguese ponto, from Latin punctum (“point”), from pungō (“I prick, puncture, punch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpõ.tu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpõ.to/
• Homophone: Ponto
• Hyphenation: pon‧to

ponto m (plural pontos)

1. point (location or place)
2. point (unit of scoring)
   • 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎, Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:

     E em triumpho, aos pulos, contou elle mesmo os sessenta e oito pontos que Carlos perdia.

     And in triumph, jumping, he counted himself the sixty-eight points Carl had lost.

3. point (topic of discussion)
   • 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎, Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:

     —Vamos ao ponto essencial... Quanto quer o snr. Palma por me dizer quem lhe encommendou o artigo da Corneta?

     Let’s get to the point... how much does mr. Palma want for telling me who ordered the Corneta article?

4. point (particular moment in an event)
5. (economics) point (unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares)
6. (geometry) point (zero-dimensional object)
7. dot (small spot)
   • 1888, José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, Os Maias: Episódios da Vida Romântica‎, Porto: Livraria Internacional de Ernesto Chardron, →ISBN:

     Alencar deu um olhar á severa frontaria de convento, adormecida, sem um ponto de luz.

     Alencar looked at the sombre façade of the convent, asleep, without a dot of light.

8. (typography) dot or tittle of a character
9. (grammar) full stop
10. (sewing) stitch (single pass of a needle in sewing or suture)
11. a register of the time each employee arrives and leaves his workplace
12. a machine or device which logs the time each employee arrives and leaves his workplace
13. a specific value in a scale

    ponto crítico

    critical point

14. (cooking) neither well done nor rare
15. a location where passengers wait for a bus or taxi
16. a unit of measurement of TV audience

For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:ponto.

• (location): local, localidade, lugar
• (topic): tópico
• (small spot): mancha, pinta, sinal
• (dot or tittle): pingo
• (full stop): ponto final

• (zero-dimensional object): espaço, plano
• (full stop): ponto de exclamação, ponto de interrogação, ponto-e-vírgula, reticências, vírgula
• (neither well done nor rare): bem-passado, mal-passado

ponto m (plural pontos)

1. (poetic) sea; seas