ponent
adjEtymology Borrowed from Italian ponente (“west”), ultimately from pōnēns, present participle of pōnō (“to place”).
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Pertaining to the west, westerly.
- Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds, Eurus and Zephyr1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- 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 winds1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: