puente
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Puente (bridge)
See also: Puente
Asturian
Pronunciation
Noun
puente m (plural puentes)
- Alternative form of ponte
Ilocano
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
puente (Kur-itan spelling ᜉᜓᜁᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)
- (Abra, rare) bridge
- Synonyms: rangtay, taytay, talaytay, kalantay
- Idi ubbingkam, awan pay la dagiti puente a pagballasiwan. Pagnaen ken langoyenmi wenno agbalsakam tapno makaballasiw laeng.
- When we were kids, there were no bridges for us to cross the river. We'd either walk and swim through the river or use a raft just to get to the other side.
Usage notes
- Still used by some old folks around the municipalities of Bangued, Pidigan, Peñarrubia, Tayum, La Paz, Dolores, and San Juan. It is becoming rare among the younger generation.
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish puente, from Latin pontem, from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s (“path, road”), from *pent- (“path”). Compare Catalan pont, French pont, Italian ponte, Occitan pònt, Portuguese ponte, Romanian punte, Romansch punt.
Pronunciation
Noun
puente m (plural puentes)
- bridge (construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height)
- Synonym: (El Salvador) bóveda
- long weekend; a day which falls between two work-free days (holidays or weekend days), on which leave is preferred
- Synonym: (Chile) sándwich
- 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)
- Synonym: dentadura
Usage notes
- In some archaic texts or expressions this noun may take the feminine gender instead.
Hyponyms
- puente aéreo
- puente atirantado (“cable-stayed bridge”)
- puente colgante simple (“simple suspension bridge, Inca rope bridge”)
- puente colgante (“suspension bridge”)
- puente de arco atirantado (“tied-arch bridge”)
- puente de arco, puente en arco (“arch bridge”)
- puente de barcas (“pontoon bridge”)
- puente de caballetes (“trestle”)
- puente de viga (“beam bridge”)
- puente en celosía (“truss bridge”)
- puente en ménsula (“cantilever bridge”)
- puente levadizo
- puente luna (“moon bridge”)
- puente móvil (“movable bridge”)
- puente transbordador (“transporter bridge, ferry bridge”)
- puente tubular (“tubular bridge”)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “puente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014