French ponton from Old French from Latin pontō pontōn- floating bridge from pōns pont- bridge.

Pontoon root word definition. 1 A flat-bottomed boat or hollow metal cylinder used with others to support a temporary bridge or floating landing stage. - root base stem theme radical. Thematic vowels are part of the root word.

WORD OF THE DAY. Now lets move onto to roots and use the word disruptive as an example to show how they work. Noun 1 French ponton from Old French from Latin ponton- ponto.

Pontoon n flat-bottomed boat especially in military engineering one to support a temporary bridge over a river 1670s from French pontoon from Old French ponton 14c bridge drawbridge boat-bridge. A float of a seaplane. Root -ism the belief in 266.

See pent- in Indo-European roots American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Fifth Edition. Linguistics the form of a word after all affixes are removed. From French ponton from Latin pontō punt floating bridge from pōns bridge British Dictionary definitions for pontoon 2 of 2.

Root -logy study in the field of. Estivate verb used without object es-t uh-veyt SEE DEFINITION. Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhoneiPad and Android apps.

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