pone

See also: poné

English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English pone, from Anglo-Norman pone, from Late Latin pone, from Latin pōne, imperative of pōnere (“to place”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊni/
• (US) enPR: pōʹnē, IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊni/
• Homophone: pony

Noun

pone (plural pones)

1. (law, historical) A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
2. (law, historical) A writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Powhatan apones, appoans (“bread”), from Proto-Algonquian *apwa·n (“thing which has been baked or roasted”), whence also Abenaki abôn (“bread”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /poʊn/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊn

Noun

pone (countable and uncountable, plural pones)

1. (Southern US) A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.

Derived terms

• cornpone

See also

• hominy grits

Etymology 3

Perhaps borrowed from Latin ponere.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊni/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) enPR: pōʹnē, IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊni/
• Homophone: pony

Noun

pone (plural pones)

1. (card games, chiefly US) The last player to bet or play in turn.

Anagrams

• Nope, nope, open, peno-, peon

Ainu

Etymology

Possibly cognate to Japanese 骨(ほね) (hone), Korean 뼈 (ppyeo, “bone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pòꜛné/

Noun

pone (Kana spelling ポネ)

1. bone

Interlingua

Verb

pone

1. present of poner
2. imperative of poner

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: pó‧ne

Verb

pone

1. third-person singular present indicative of porre

Anagrams

• peno, penò

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.ne/, [ˈpoːnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ne/, [ˈpɔːne]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *pozni, from Proto-Indo-European *pós-ni, from *pós. Related to post.

The accusative probably has the same origin as the accusative of post.

Preposition

pōne (+ accusative)

1. behind; in the rear of

Adverb

pōne (not comparable)

1. after, back, behind, in the rear

Etymology 2

Verb

pōne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pōnō

References

• “pone”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pone”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Old French

Noun

pone oblique singular, m (oblique plural pones, nominative singular pones, nominative plural pone)

1. pone (type of writ)

   Uncore demaundoms jugement de la variaunce entre le original e le pone

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants

• → English: pone

Spanish

Verb

pone

1. third-person singular present indicative of poner

Anagrams

• peón