puente

• IPA^(key): /ˈpwente/, [ˈpwẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Hyphenation: puen‧te

puente m (plural puentes)

1. Alternative form of ponte

Borrowed from Spanish puente.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpwente/ [ˈpwen.te]
• Hyphenation: pu‧en‧te

puente (Kur-itan spelling ᜉᜓᜁᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)

1. (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.

• 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.

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpwente/ [ˈpwẽn̪.t̪e]

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• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: puen‧te

puente m (plural puentes)

1. bridge (construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height)

   Synonym: (El Salvador) bóveda

2. long weekend; a day which falls between two work-free days (holidays or weekend days), on which leave is preferred

   Synonym: (Chile) sándwich

3. arch of a foot (curved part of the bottom of a foot)
4. (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)
5. (dentistry) bridge, denture (artificial replacement of one or more teeth)

   Synonym: dentadura

• In some archaic texts or expressions this noun may take the feminine gender instead.

• “puente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28