Πόντος

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.

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

1. Black Sea (a sea north of Anatolia)
2. Pontus (an ancient kingdom and cultural region covering the eastern half of the southern coast of the Black Sea, in Anatolia in modern Turkey; traditionally Greek-speaking)
3. (historical) Pontus (a former province of the Roman Empire covering the western half of the Pontus region unified with Bithynia; in full, Bithynia et Pontus)
4. (Greek mythology) Pontus (a sea god)

• 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

• 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

From Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos). Cognate with standard modern Greek Πόντος (Póntos).

Πόντος (Póntos) m

1. Pontus (an ancient kingdom and cultural region covering the eastern half of the southern coast of the Black Sea, in Anatolia in modern Turkey; traditionally Greek-speaking)
2. (historical) Pontus (a former province of the Roman Empire covering the western half of the Pontus region unified with Bithynia; in full, Bithynia et Pontus)