puente
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- bridge construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height
- long weekend; a day which falls between two work-free days (holidays or weekend days), on which leave is preferred
- arch of a foot curved part of the bottom of a foot
- (nautical) bridge, bridge deck elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain
- (dentistry) bridge, denture artificial replacement of one or more teeth
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish puente inherited from Latin pontem inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (path, road).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pónteh₁s
Gloss
path, road
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
道, 路
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pons Latin
- pons, pōntem, pōns Latin
- pontem Latin
- pōns Latin
- Brücke German
- Brückentag German
- Tag German
- interponte Italian
- ponte Italian
- ponticello Italian
- pontiere Italian
- pontuale Italian
- entrepont French
- pont French
- ponter French
- pontet French
- pontier French
- ponton French
- lanzapuentes Spanish, Castilian
- lanzar Spanish, Castilian
- macropuente Spanish, Castilian
- puentismo Spanish, Castilian
- πόντος Ancient Greek
- *pent- Proto-Indo-European
- *pónteh₁s Proto-Indo-European
- ponte Portuguese
- pont Old French
- ponto Esperanto
- pont Catalan, Valencian
- punte Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- հուն Old Armenian
- boong Vietnamese
- ponte Old Portuguese
- punti Aromanian
- punt Romansh
- pùnt Romansh
- puint Friulian
- puente Old Spanish
- *pont- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- puant Dalmatian
- pon Haitian, Haitian Creole
- bont Mozarabic
- pwente Chamicuro