pontus

See also: Pontus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.tus/, [ˈpɔn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.tus/, [ˈpɔn̪t̪us]

Noun

pontus m (genitive pontī); second declension

1. the sea, the deep

   Pontus Euxinus ― the Black Sea

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.124–126:

     Intereā magnō miscērī murmure pontum,
     ēmissamque hiemem sēnsit Neptūnus, et īmīs
     stāgna refūsa vadīs, graviter commōtus; [...].

     Meanwhile, that with a mighty roar the sea was being intermixed, and that a storm had been sent forth – Neptune felt [it] – and that stillwaters from the deepest sea-bottoms had been thrown upwards – [the god was now] seriously concerned.
     (Neptune (mythology) had given no assent to this disturbance of his kingdom.)

2. a wave (of the sea)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pontus	pontī
genitive	pontī	pontōrum
dative	pontō	pontīs
accusative	pontum	pontōs
ablative	pontō	pontīs
vocative	ponte	pontī

Synonyms

• (the sea): aequor, aqua, campus, mare, pelagus, salum

Descendants

• Spanish: ponto

See also

• pons

References

• “pontus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pontus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pontus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pontus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to build a bridge over a river: flumen ponte iungere
    
• “pontus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “pontus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pontus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “pontus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly