pont

Etymology

Borrowed from German Punkt, from Latin punctum.^[1][2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpont]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ont

Adverb

pont

1. 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.

Noun

pont (plural pontok)

1. point, dot (something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark)
2. point (a specific location or place, seen as a spatial position)
3. point (a particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture)
4. point, section, item (an individual element in a larger whole or a schedule)
5. (law, in a contract) clause, article
6. (law, in an indictment) count
7. (orthography) point, full stop, period (a terminal punctuation mark or a symbol of abbreviation)
8. (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.)
9. (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)
10. (computing) dot (a symbol to separate domain levels such as in a URL or email address)
11. (sports, video games, board games) point (a unit of scoring in a game or competition)
12. (games) pip (one of the spots or symbols on a playing card, domino, die, etc.)
13. (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)
14. (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)
15. (economics) point (a unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares)
16. (figuratively) Synonym of szempont (“aspect, respect, area”)
17. (figuratively, with the suffix -ig (“up to”)) Synonym of mérték (“extent, degree”)

References

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian ponti, from Latin pons.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔnt/

Noun

pont m (plural pontijiet)

1. bridge

Etymology

From Old French pont, from Latin pōns, pontem.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

  (file)

Noun

pont m (plural ponts)

1. (Jersey) bridge

Etymology

From Latin pōns, pontem.

Noun

pont oblique singular, m (oblique plural ponz or pontz, nominative singular ponz or pontz, nominative plural pont)

1. bridge (construction)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian pont. Doublet of punct.

Noun

pont n (plural ponturi)

1. tip, hint
2. cue
3. cinch

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^(key): /pɔnt/

Noun

pont f (plural pontydd)

1. bridge
   • Proverb:

     A fo ben bid bont.

     Let him who would be a leader be a bridge.

Mutation

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