Πόντος
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See also: πόντος
Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From πόντος (póntos, “sea”), attested in Mycenaean Greek as 𐀡𐀵 (po-to).[1] 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[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pón.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpon.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpon.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpon.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpon.dos/
Proper noun[edit]
Πόντος • (Póntos) m (genitive Πόντου); second declension
- Black Sea (a sea north of Anatolia)
- (historical) Pontus (a former kingdom in northeastern Anatolia)
- Pontus (a region of Turkey, in northeastern Anatolia)
- (Greek mythology) Pontus (a sea god)
Inflection[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- Ποντικός μῦς (Pontikós mûs)
- Ποντῐκόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon)
- Ποντῐκός (Pontikós)
- Ποντῐᾰκός (Pontiakós)
Descendants[edit]
- German: Pontos
- Greek: Πόντος (Póntos)
- Pontic Greek: Πόντος (Póntos)
- → Latin: Pontus
- English: Pontus
- → Old Georgian: პონტოჲ (ṗonṭoy)
- → Persian: پنطس (Pontos), بنطس (Bontos)
References[edit]
- ^ John Chadwick, Lydia Baumbach (1963) “The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary”, in Glotta : Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache, volume 41, number 3/4, Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (GmbH & Co. KG), →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 237 of 157–271: “πόντος”
- 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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos). Cognate with standard modern Greek Πόντος (Póntos).
Proper noun[edit]
Πόντος (Póntos) m
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pent-
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- grc:Seas
- Ancient Greek terms with historical senses
- grc:Historical polities
- grc:Places in Turkey
- grc:Greek deities
- Pontic Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek
- Pontic Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Pontic Greek lemmas
- Pontic Greek nouns
- Pontic Greek masculine nouns