pondo

See also: Pondo

Bikol Central

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fondo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpondo/ [ˈpon̪.d̪o]
  • Hyphenation: pon‧do

Noun

póndo (Basahan spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜓ)

  1. fund, funding

Galician

Alternative forms

Verb

pondo

  1. gerund of pór
  2. (reintegrationist norm) gerund of pôr

Japanese

Romanization

pondo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ポンド

Latin

Etymology

Adverbial ablative, likely from an o-stem variant of pondus, ponderis.

Adverb

pondō (not comparable)

  1. by weight, in weight
    • 27-7 BCE, Livy, Ab urbe Condita, book III. xxix:
      [] , ut beneficii magis quam ignominiae hic exercitus memor et coronam auream dictatori, libram pondo, decreverit []
      [] , that this army, choosing to be mindful of its new gains rather than of the disgrace he had caused his soldiers, accorded the dictator a golden crown, a full pound in weight []
  2. (with any numeral) in pounds, pounds (as the most common unit of weight)
    aurī quattuor pondō expendereto pay four pounds of gold

References

  • pondo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pondo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "pondo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • pondo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • põdo (obsolete, abbreviation)
  • pono (eye dialect, Northeast Brazil)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpõ.du/

Verb

pondo

  1. gerund of pôr

Sranan Tongo

Noun

pondo

  1. ferry

Swazi

Noun

póndó class 1a (plural bópóndó class 2a)

  1. pound

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fondo, from Latin fundus. Compare Cebuano pundo. Doublet of pundo.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpondo/ [ˈpon̪.d̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ondo
  • Syllabification: pon‧do

Noun

pondo (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜈ᜔ᜇᜓ)

  1. fund; funding

Derived terms

Further reading

  • pondo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018