Ponente

Ponente (Italian: [poˈnɛnte]; Catalan:Ponent, Maltese:Punent, Greek:Πουνέντες, Spanish:Poniente, Montenegrin:Punenat) is the traditional cardinal point West, more specifically a wind that blows from the west.

The name is derived from the Latin via Italian for "setting", meaning sunset, and appeared by that name in the traditional compass rose on the Mediterranean Sea nautical charts since the Middle Ages.