ponient
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
- ponjent, ponyent (alternative spellings)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [poˈnjẽnt]
Noun
ponient m (usually uncountable)
- Apocopic form of poniente; the west
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 28r.
- Jerico era cab el flume iordan aſo po niét uinieró eſtas eſpinas aierico acaſa de mulier mercadera. q́ auia nombre rab.
- Jericho was near the Jordan River, to its west. These spies came to Jericho to the house of a merchant woman by the name of Rahab.
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 28r.
Adjective
ponient (plural ponientes)
- Apocopic form of poniente; west, westward
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r.
- Tras ierico al ſol poniét es la quarétena. O xṕs aẏuno. xl. dias & .xl. noches alli ſuſo en el mót o quiſo tentar el diablo a xṕs.
- Behind Jericho, toward the setting sun, is the quarantine, where Christ fasted forty days and forty nights. There, on the mountain where the Devil attempted to tempt Christ.
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r.