Πόντος
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Ancient Greek
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
- (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
- 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
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)
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, 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