English

Proper noun

Pontus

1. (Greek mythology) A god of the sea.
2. (historical) An ancient region and kingdom on the southern coast of the Black Sea.

Translations

Anagrams

• put-ons
• puts on
• unpots
• unstop

See also

• Pontus on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πόντος ‎(Póntos).

Proper noun

Pontus m ‎(genitive Pontī); second declension

1. Pontus (kingdom and later Roman province)
2. the Black Sea
3. the general region around the Black Sea

Synonyms

• (Black Sea): Pontus Euxīnus

Declension

Second declension.

References

• Pontus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Pontus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Swedish

Etymology

Brought to Sweden by the French soldier Pontus De La Gardie (~1520-1585), originally Ponce, from the saint's name Pontius.

Proper noun

Pontus

1. A male given name.

Latin

Noun

pontus m ‎(genitive pontī); second declension

1. the sea, the deep

   Pontus Euxinus^W

   The Black Sea

2. a wave (of the sea)

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (the sea): aequor, aqua, campus, mare, pelagus, salum

See also

• pons

References

• pontus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pontus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PONTUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pontus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to build a bridge over a river: flumen ponte iungere
    
• pontus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• pontus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pontus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• pontus in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly