# pont
## English
### Verb

pont (third-person singular simple present ponts, present participle ponting, simple past and past participle ponted)
* 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: (Central) [ˈpɔn]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔnt]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pont m (plural ponts)
* a bridge (construction)
* 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.
* a day which falls between a weekend and holiday, which employees will often take off in order to have a long weekend

#### Derived terms

* pont llevadís
* pontarró
* pontatge
* pontet

#### Related terms

* pontífex
* pontó

### 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

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔnt
* Homophone: pond

### Noun

pont c (plural ponten, diminutive pontje n)
* 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

## Franc-Comtois
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French point, from Latin pūnctum.

### Noun

pont
* a point

### References

* Oberli, Marie-Louis (2006) Patois - Français : Le Djâsaie De Tchie Nos, Glossaire Patois des Franches-Montagnes‎ (in French)

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French pont, from Latin pontem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔ̃/
* (Canada) IPA: /põ/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Homophone: ponts
* Hyphenation: pont

### Noun

pont m (plural ponts)
* bridge
** Sur le pont d’Avignon / L’on y danse, l’on y danse / Sur le pont d’Avignon / L’on y danse tous en rondOn the bridge of Avignon / We all dance there, we all dance there / On the bridge of Avignon / We all dance there in a ring
* (nautical) deck
* (dentistry, North America) bridge
    Synonym: (France) bridge

#### Derived terms

* couper les ponts
* coûter un pont
* Dupont
* faire le pont
* grand pont
* petit pont
* ponceau
* pont aérien
* pont disulfure
* pont d’or
* pont suspendu
* pont tournant
* pont-levis
* pontage
* ponter
* tête de pont

#### 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)
* point
* full stop, period
* dot
* instant
* (in the plural) points, score

#### Related terms

* ponte

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpont]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ont

### Adverb

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

#### Derived terms

* p. (abbreviation)
* pontatlan
* pontos → pontosság, pontosít → összpontosít
* (pontosul (not in use)) → összpontosul
* pontoz
* pontarány
* pontdiagram
* pontelőny
* pontérték
* pontfénylámpa
* pontgyűjtő
* ponthalmaz
* ponthegesztés
* pontkülönbség
* pontméret
* pontmutáció
* pontrendszer
* pontsor
* pontszám
* pontszerzés, pontszerző
* ponttáblázat
* ponttöltés
* pontvadászat
* pontveszteség
* alappont
* álláspont
* bázispont
* bónuszpont
* büntetőpont
* célpont
* csomópont
* csúcspont
* delelőpont
* dermedéspont
* Didot-pont
* díszpont
* ellenpont
* északpont
* fagyáspont, fagypont
* feketepont
* felezőpont
* fénypont
* fixpont
* fordulópont
* forgáspont, forgópont
* forráspont, forrpont
* fókuszpont
* gócpont
* gyújtópont, gyulladáspont, gyúpont
* harmatpont
* hatópont
* hármaspont
* hárompont-jel
* hibapont
* holtpont
* időpont
* iránypont
* kettőspont
* kezdőpont
* képpont
* kiindulópont
* középpont, központ
* kulcspont
* kutatópont
* lágyuláspont
* lobbanáspont
* magasságpont
* menüpont
* metszéspont, metszőpont
* mélypont
* négyespont
* nézőpont
* nullapont, nullpont
* nyeregpont
* nyugvópont
* oltópont
* olvadáspont
* orgonapont
* osztópont
* pirospont
* pluszpont
* programpont
* raszterpont
* sarkpont, sarokpont
* súlypont
* szabálypont
* százalékpont
* szempont
* talppont
* támadáspont
* támaszpont, támasztópont, támpont
* tengelypont
* tetőpont
* tizedespont
* tizenegyespont
* tömegpont
* ugrópont
* ütközőpont
* vádpont
* végpont
* vitapont
* zéruspont
* ellenőrző pont
* érintési pont
* stacionárius pont

### References

* ↑ pont in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
* ↑ pont in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

### 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: /pɔnt/

### Noun

pont m (plural pontijiet)
* bridge

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French pont, from Latin pōns, pontem.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Noun

pont m (plural ponts)
* (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)
* bridge (construction)

#### Descendants

* French: pont
* Norman: pont
* Walloon: pont

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian pont. Doublet of punct.

### Noun

pont n (plural ponturi)
* tip, hint
* cue
* cinch

#### Declension
## Welsh
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔnt/

### Noun

pont f (plural pontydd)
* bridge
** Proverb:
    A fo ben bid bont.
       Let him who would be a leader be a bridge.

#### Derived terms

* fforddbont (“viaduct”)
* Pont-y-pŵl (“Pontypool”)
* pontio (“to bridge; to transition”)
* traphont (“viaduct, aqueduct”)
* Y Bont-faen (“Cowbridge”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### 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