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Ponte
ponte
ponte
Italian
Etymology
From Latin pons, pontem. Compare Catalan pont, French pont, Occitan pònt, Portuguese ponte, Romanian punte, Romansch punt, Spanish puente.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpon.te/, /ˈpɔn.te/
- Hyphenation: pón‧te
Noun
ponte m (plural ponti)
- bridge (structure)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
See pontus
Noun
ponte
- vocative singular of pontus
Etymology 2
See pons
Noun
ponte
- ablative singular of pons
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese ponte, from Latin pons, pontis, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, road”), from *pent- (“path”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ponte f (plural pontes)
- bridge (construction or natural feature that spans a divide)
- (medicine) bypass (a passage created around a damaged organ)
- (figuratively) bridge (anything that connects separate things)
Synonyms
- (bypass): bypass