ponent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ponente (“west”), ultimately from pōnēns, present participle of pōnō (“to place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊnənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

ponent (plural ponents)

1. The west; the area of the setting sun.

   Synonyms: occident, west

   Antonyms: orient, east, levant

Adjective

ponent (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the west, westerly.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →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

Anagrams

• Penton, penton

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [puˈnen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [poˈnent]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin ponentem (“putting, setting”), present active participle of pōnō (“to put, to set”).

Noun

ponent m (plural ponents)

1. the place where the sun sets, the west

   Synonyms: occident, oest

2. (meteorology) west wind

Derived terms

• ponentí

Etymology 2

From pondre (“to set”).

Noun

ponent m or f by sense (plural ponents)

1. rapporteur

Derived terms

• ponència

Verb

ponent

1. gerund of pondre

Further reading

• “ponent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpoː.nɛnt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː.nent]

Verb

pōnent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of pōnō

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• pùlent
• pùlenat

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po‧nent

Noun

pònent m inan (Cyrillic spelling по̀нент)

1. Ponent (wind)

Declension

Declension of ponent

	singular	plural
nominative	ponent	ponenti
genitive	ponenta	ponenata
dative	ponentu	ponentima
accusative	ponent	ponente
vocative	ponente	ponenti
locative	ponentu	ponentima
instrumental	ponentom	ponentima