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Where does “entrepont” come from?

entrepont (French) comes from French pont, from Old French pont, from Latin pōns, from Latin fractus, from Latin frangere, from Latin frangō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰrēǵ- — to shine, shimmer.

entrepont (French): steerage

Definitions

  1. steerage

Ancestry of “entrepont”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpontbridge; deck
2Old Frenchpontbridge
3Latinpōns—
4Latinfractusbroken, shattered, having been broken;...
5Latinfrangeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
6Latinfrangō—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰrēǵ-to shine, shimmer
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