English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊni/
• (US) enPR: pōʹnē, IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊni/
• Homophone: pony
• Rhymes: -əʊn

Noun

pone ‎(plural pones)

1. (law, historical) A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
2. (law, historical) A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.

Etymology 2

From Powhatan apones, appoans ‎(“bread”), from Proto-Algonquian *apwa·n ‎(“thing which has been baked or roasted”), whence also Abenaki abôn ‎(“bread”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəʊn/

Noun

pone ‎(plural pones)

1. (Southern US) A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
   • 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage 2004, page 11:

     ‘Maybe you could fetch me just a little piece of pone,’ I said, pleading, thinking: Big talk will fetch you nothing but nigger talk might work.

Derived terms

• corn pone

See also

• hominy grits

Etymology 3

Unknown

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊni/
• (US) enPR: pōʹnē, IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊni/
• Homophone: pony

Noun

pone ‎(plural pones)

1. (card games, chiefly US) The last player to bet or play in turn.

Anagrams

• nope, Nope, open, peon

Interlingua

Verb

pone

1. present of poner
2. imperative of poner

Italian

Pronunciation

• póne
• IPA^(key): /ˈpone/

Verb

pone

1. third-person singular indicative present of porre

Anagrams

• peno, penò

Latin

Etymology

From post + *-ne.

Preposition

pōne + accusative

1. behind; in the rear of

Adverb

pōne ‎(not comparable)

1. after, back, behind, in the rear

Verb

pōne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pōnō

References

• pone in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pone in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pone”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Old French

Noun

pone m ‎(oblique plural pones, nominative singular pones, nominative plural pone)

1. pone (type of writ)

   Uncore demaundoms jugement de la variaunce entre le original e le pone‎

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants

• English: pone

Spanish

Verb

pone

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of poner.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of poner.