Πόντος

See also: πόντος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πόντος (póntos). In Homeric works, the word was used to refer to any sea, but later it began to refer specifically to the Black Sea, and eventually to a region settled on its southeastern shores.

Attested in Mycenaean Greek as 𐀡𐀵 (po-to).[1]

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

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

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

Ποντῐκός (Pontikós)
Ποντῐᾰκός (Pontiakós)
Ποντῐκόν κάρυον (Pontikón káruon)
ποντικός (pontikós, “mouse”)

Descendants

Greek: Πόντος (Póntos)
Pontic Greek: Πόντος (Póntos)
→ Latin: Pontus
→ Old Georgian: პონტოჲ (ṗonṭoy)
→ Persian: پنطس، بنطس‎ (pontos, bontos)

Unsorted borrowings

→ Turkish: Pontos

References

John Chadwick; Lydia Baumbach (1963), “The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary”, in Glotta : Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache, volume 41, issue 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

Pontus

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[1] John Chadwick; Lydia Baumbach (1963), “The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary”, in Glotta : Zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische Sprache, volume 41, issue 3/4, Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (GmbH & Co. KG), →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 237 of 157–271: “πόντος”