BRIDGE Copy link • BRIDGEpons. A little bridge, ponticulus. A bridge on piles, pons sublicius: of boats, pons navalis, rates (et lintres) junctae. To throw a bridge over a river, pontem flumini imponere or injicere, pontem in fluvio or in flumine facere, amnem ponte jungere. To break down a bridge, pontem rescindere, iriterscindere, intercidere, interrumpere: partially, pontem recidere: behind one, pontem interscindere a tergo. Of the nose, or an instrument, jugum.