Ponent

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpəʊnÉ™nt/

Origin

From Italian ponente ("west"), ultimately from Latin ponent-, ponens, present participle of ponere ("to place").

Full definition of ponent

Noun

1. the west; the area of the setting sun

Adjective

1. pertaining to the west, westerly
• 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: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 winds----