Πόντος

See also: πόντος

Ancient Greek

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Pontus

Etymology

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

(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

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

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

^ 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

Pontus

[1] 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”

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