Meaning of pontus | Babel Free

Definitions

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)
   declension-2, masculine, singular
2. the sea, the deep
   declension-2, masculine
3. Pontus (a former province of the Roman Empire covering the western half of the Pontus region unified with Bithynia; in full, Bithynia et Pontus)
   declension-2, historical, masculine, singular
4. a wave (of the sea)
   declension-2, masculine
5. the Black Sea
   declension-2, masculine, singular
6. the general region around the Black Sea
   declension-2, masculine, singular

Equivalents

Examples

“Pontus Euxinus”

the Black Sea

“Intereā magnō miscērī murmure pontum, ēmissamque hiemem sēnsit Neptūnus, et īmīs stāgna refūsa vadīs, graviter commōtus; …. Meanwhile, that with a mighty roar the sea was being intermixed, and that a storm had been sent forth – Neptune felt [it] – and that stillwaters from the deepest sea-bottoms had been thrown upwards – [the god was now] seriously concerned.”

(Neptune (mythology) had given no assent to this disturbance of his kingdom.)

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