pondre

Inherited from Latin pōnere, from Proto-Italic *pozinō.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɔn.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɔn.dɾe]

pondre (first-person singular present ponc, first-person singular preterite ponguí, past participle post); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive) to lay (an egg)
2. (reflexive) to set (sun)

• Franja de Ponent
• pondre's

• ponent

• “pondre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pondre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pondre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pondre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French pondre, inherited from Latin pōnere, from Proto-Italic *pozinō.

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̃dʁ/

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pondre

1. to lay (eggs)
   • 1997, Le Courrier de la nature, numbers 161-174, page 149:

     A noter que la caouanne, Caretta caretta, semble effectivement ne plus pondre en Corse, l’espèce n’a pas complètement disparu des côtes de France où, chaque année, quelques individus sont capturés involuntairement par des engins de pêche.

     It should be noted that the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, no longer seems to lay eggs in Corsica, but the species has not completely disappeared from French coastlines where, each year, several individuals are caught unintentionally in fishing apparatus.

2. (slang, France) to give birth

• pondaison
• pondeur/pondeuse
• ponte

• “pondre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• répond

From Old French pondre, from Latin pōnō, pōnere (“place, put, lay”).

pondre

1. (Jersey) to lay (eggs)

From Latin pōnere, present active infinitive of pōnō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpundɾə/

pondre

1. to lay (eggs)

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• espondre

• French: pondre
• Norman: pondre
• Walloon: ponre

• Etymology and history of “pondre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pondre, supplement)