pontus

pontus

1. overweight person (colloquial)

• ponsi (“pommel, energy, vigour, weight”)
• ponteva (“energetic, vigorous”)
• Latin pondus (“weight (of a body)”)

From Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpon.tus/, [ˈpɔn.tʊs]

pontus m (genitive pontī); second declension

1. the sea, the deep

   Pontus Euxinus ^W

   The Black Sea

2. a wave (of the sea)

Second declension.

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

• pons

• 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)
• pontus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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