Pontine

See also: pontine

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Pontinus or Pomptinus, an appellation given to a district in Latium, near Pometia.

Adjective

Pontine (comparative more Pontine, superlative most Pontine)

1. Of or relating to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples.

Synonyms

• Pomptine

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Pontine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• pointen