Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Πόντος • ‎(Póntos) m ‎(genitive Πόντου); second declension

1. the Black Sea.
2. Pontus, a region on the southeastern shores of the Black Sea.
3. (Greek mythology) Pontus, the sea god in Greek mythology.

Inflection

Derived terms

• Ποντικός ‎(Pontikós)
• Ποντιακός ‎(Pontiakós)
• Ποντικόν κάρυον ‎(Pontikón káruon)

Descendants

• Greek: Πόντος ‎(Póntos)
• Latin: Pontus
• Persian: پنطس، بنطس ‎(pontos, bontos)
• Turkish: Pontos

References

• «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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,023
• LSJ

Ancient Greek

Noun

πόντος • ‎(póntos) m ‎(genitive πόντου); second declension

1. the sea, usually the Mediterranean
   1. (often combined with epithets in Homer)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.613

        αὐτὸς γάρ σφιν δῶκεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων
        νῆας ἐϋσσέλμους περάᾱν ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον
        Ἀτρεΐδης, ἐπεὶ οὔ σφι θαλάσσια ἔργα μεμήλει.

        For Agamemnon son of Atreus himself had given [the Arcadians]
        strong-benched ships for crossing the wine-dark sea,
        since they weren't interested in the work of the sea.

      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.744

        Φοίνῑκες δ' ἄγον ἄνδρες ἐπ' ἠεροειδέα πόντον,

        Phoenician men had brought [the mixing bowl] over the misty sea,

      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.196–198

        οὐ γάρ πω τέθνηκεν ἐπὶ χθονὶ δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς,
        ἀλλ' ἔτι που ζωὸς κατερῡ́κεται εὐρέϊ πόντῳ,
        νήσῳ̆ ἐν ἀμφιρύτῃ,

        [Athena disguised as Mentes talking to Telemachus:]
        For noble Odysseus hasn't died yet on earth,
        but is probably still alive and being detained on the wide sea
        on a sea-girt isle,

Inflection

See also

• πάτος ‎(pátos)

References

• πόντος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πόντος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πόντος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «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
• «πόντος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πόντος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • deep idem, page 203.
  • Hellespont idem, page 1012.
  • Pontus idem, page 1023.
  • sea idem, page 744.

Greek

Etymology 1

From Venetian pont ‎(“point, end”)

Noun

πόντος • ‎(póntos) m ‎(plural πόντοι)

1. point (the unit of scoring in a game or competition)
2. centimeter
3. ladder (length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek πόντος ‎(póntos, “see above”).

Noun

πόντος • ‎(póntos) m ‎(plural πόντοι)

1. open sea, large sea

Declension

Derived terms

• Εύξεινος Πόντος m ‎(Éfxeinos Póntos, “Black Sea”)

Synonyms

• see: πέλαγος m ‎(pélagos)

Usage notes

The more common terms:

• ωκεανός m ‎(okeanós, “ocean”) (e.g. Atlantic, Pacific)
• θάλασσα f ‎(thálassa, “larger sea”) (e.g. Mediterranean, Baltic, Caribbean)
• πέλαγος m ‎(pélagos, “smaller sea”) (e.g. Adriatic, Aegean, Ionian)