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ponent

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ponente (“west”), ultimately from pōnēns, present participle of pōnō (“to place”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ponent (plural ponents)

  1. The west; the area of the setting sun.
    Synonyms: occident, west
    Antonyms: orient, east, levant

Adjective

ponent (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the west, westerly.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds, Eurus and Zephyr
    • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
      There was an ambiguity surpassing conjecture in her eyes, and the wind rose up around us in that half barbaric Russian garden with its alien Diana blackened by snows and fierce ponent winds

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin ponentem (“putting, setting”), present active participle of pōnō (“to put, to set”).

Noun

ponent m (plural ponents)

  1. the place where the sun sets, the west
    Synonyms: occident, oest
  2. (meteorology) west wind
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From pondre (“to set”).

Noun

ponent m or f by sense (plural ponents)

  1. rapporteur
Derived terms

Verb

ponent

  1. gerund of pondre

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Latin

Verb

pōnent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of pōnō

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: po‧nent

Noun

pònent m inan (Cyrillic spelling по̀нент)

  1. Ponent (wind)

Declension

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