pons

See also: Pons

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pons (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɒnz/
• Rhymes: -ɒnz

Noun

pons (plural pontes)

1. (anatomy) A bridge-like tissue connecting two parts of an organ
2. (anatomy) A band of nerve fibres, the pons Varolii, within the brain stem

Holonyms

• brain stem

Related terms

• pontine

Translations

Part of brain

• Arabic: جسر
• Czech: most (cs) m
• Finnish: aivosilta (fi)
• French: pont (fr) m
• German: Pons m
• Greek: γέφυρα (el) f (géfyra)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjernebro m or f, hjernebru m or f

  Nynorsk: hjernebru f

• Polish: most (pl) m
• Spanish: puente troncoencefálico m, pons m
• Swedish: hjärnbrygga (sv), pons (sv)

Anagrams

• NPOs, Nops, OPNs, nops

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Catalan

Verb

pons

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Cornish

Noun

pons m (plural ponsow)

1. bridge

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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.

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Latin

pōns (bridge)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, road”), from *pent- (“path”). Cognate with Sanskrit पथिन् (páthin), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos), Old Armenian հուն (hun, “riverbed”), and Old English findan (English find).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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.
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.6:

     Caesar partitis copiis cum Gaio Fabio legato et Marco Crasso quaestore celeriterque effectis pontibus adit tripertito, aedificia vicosque incendit, magno pecoris atque hominum numero potitur.

     Caesar, having divided his forces with C. Fabius, his lieutenant, and M. Crassus his questor, and having hastily constructed some bridges, enters their country in three divisions, burns their houses and villages, and gets possession of a large number of cattle and men.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pōns	pontēs
Genitive	pontis	pontium
Dative	pontī	pontibus
Accusative	pontem	pontēs pontīs
Ablative	ponte	pontibus
Vocative	pōns	pontēs

Derived terms

• pons Varolii (brain stem)
• pons asinorum
• ponticulus
• pontifex
• pontō

Descendants

• Aromanian: punti
• Asturian: ponte, puente
• Breton: pont
• Calabrian: puonti
• Catalan: pont
• Cornish: pons
• Dalmatian: puant
• English: pontoon

• French: pont
• Friulian: puint
• Galician: ponte
• Istriot: ponto
• Italian: ponte
• Occitan: pònt
• Old Occitan: Ponce (now a place name and surname)
• Portuguese: ponte

• Romanian: punte
• Romansch: punt
• Sardinian: ponte, ponti
• Sicilian: ponti
• Spanish: puente
• Venetian: pónte, pónt
• Walloon: pont
• Welsh: pont

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.
  • to build a bridge over a river: pontem facere in flumine
    
  • to build a bridge over a river: inicere pontem
    
  • there is a bridge over the river: pons est in flumine
    
  • to break down a bridge: pontem dissolvere, rescindere, interscindere (B. G. 2. 9. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to build a bridge over a river: flumen ponte iungere
    
• “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