ponton
French
noun
Definitions
- (military) pontoon
- (nautical) pontoon (floating structure supporting a bridge or dock)
- (nautical) pontoon (the boat)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French ponton inherited from Latin pontōnem suffix from French pont (bridge).
Origin
French
pont
Gloss
bridge
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
橋
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pontoon English
- pontōnem Latin
- pontōnem, ponto, pontō Latin
- Ponton German
- ponte Italian
- pontone Italian
- entrepont French
- pont French
- ponter French
- pontet French
- pontier French
- pongtong Norwegian Bokmål
- ponton Polish
- pontonowy Polish
- pongtong Norwegian Nynorsk
- pont Old French
- ponton Old French
- ponto Esperanto
- boong Vietnamese
- pon Haitian, Haitian Creole