Πόντος

See also: πόντος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πόντος (póntos, “sea”), attested in Mycenaean Greek as 𐀡𐀵 (po-to). Homeric Greek used πόντος (póntos) for any sea but it later began to refer specifically to the Black Sea and then to the Hellenic kingdom on its southeastern shore.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pón.tos/ → /ˈpon.tos/ → /ˈpon.dos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pón.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.dos/

Proper noun

Πόντος • (Póntos) m (genitive Πόντου); second declension

1. Black Sea (a sea north of Anatolia)
2. (historical) Pontus (a former kingdom in northeastern Anatolia)
3. Pontus (a region of Turkey, in northeastern Anatolia)
4. (Greek mythology) Pontus (a sea god)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Πόντος; τοῦ Πόντου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πόντος ho Póntos
Genitive	τοῦ Πόντου toû Póntou
Dative	τῷ Πόντῳ tôi Póntōi
Accusative	τὸν Πόντον tòn Pónton
Vocative	Πόντε Pónte
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ποντῐᾰκός (Pontiakós)
• Ποντῐκόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon)
• Ποντῐκός (Pontikós)
• Ποντικός μῦς (Pontikós mûs)

 

Descendants

• German: Pontos
• Greek: Πόντος (Póntos)
• Pontic Greek: Πόντος (Póntos)
• → Latin: Pontus
  • → English: Pontus
• → Old Georgian: პონტოჲ (ṗonṭoy)
• → Persian: پنطس (Pontos), بنطس (Bontos)
  • Ottoman Turkish: پنطس (Pontos)
    • → Turkish: Pontos

References

• Πόντος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4195 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
• LSJ

Pontic Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos). Cognate with standard modern Greek Πόντος (Póntos).

Proper noun

Πόντος (Póntos) m

1. Pontus