puente

bridge (construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height); long weekend; a day which falls between two work-free days (holidays or weekend days), on which leave is preferred; arch of a foot (curved part of the bottom of a foot); bridge, bridge deck (elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain); bridge, denture (artificial replacement of one or more teeth)

Inherited from Old Spanish puente, from Latin pontem. Compare Catalan pont, French pont, Italian ponte, Occitan pònt, Portuguese ponte, Romanian punte, Romansh punt.