Πόντος
See also: πόντος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πόντος (póntos). In Homeric works, the word was used to refer to any sea, but later it began to refer specifically to the Black Sea, and eventually to a region settled on its southeastern shores.
Attested in Mycenaean Greek as 𐀡𐀵 (po-to).[1]
Pronunciation
- (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
Πόντος • (Póntos) m (genitive Πόντου); second declension
- the Black Sea.
- Pontus, a region on the southeastern shores of the Black Sea.
- (Greek mythology) Pontus, the sea god in Greek mythology.
Inflection
Derived terms
- Ποντῐκός (Pontikós)
- Ποντῐᾰκός (Pontiakós)
- Ποντῐκόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon)
- ποντικός (pontikós, “mouse”)
Descendants
- Greek: Πόντος (Póntos)
- Latin: Pontus
- Persian: پنطس، بنطس (pontos, bontos)
- Pontic Greek: Πόντος (Póntos)
- Turkish: Pontos
References
- ^ 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
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos). Cognate with standard modern Greek Πόντος (Póntos).
Proper noun
Πόντος (Póntos) m
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