资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ponent \Po"nent\, a. [OF., fr. It. ponente, properly, setting
   (applied to the setting sun), fr. L. ponens, p. pr. of ponere
   to set, put.]
   Western; occidental. [R.]

         Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. --Milton.