Noun
pontus m (genitive pontī); second declension
- 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.)
- a wave (of the sea)
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