ponent

Borrowed from Italian ponente (“west”), ultimately from Latin ponent-, ponens, present participle of ponere (“to place”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊnənt/

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ponent (uncountable)

1. The west; the area of the setting sun.

   Synonyms: occident, west

   Antonyms: orient, east, levant

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 ; nd by Robert Boulter ; 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

• Penton, penton

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

ponent m (plural ponents)

1. the place where the sun sets, the west

   Synonyms: occident, oest

2. a wind from the west

• ponentí

From pondre (“to set”).

ponent m or f by sense (plural ponents)

1. rapporteur

• ponència

ponent

1. gerund of pondre

• “ponent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

pōnent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of pōnō