pontus

See also: Pontus

Finnish

Noun

pontus

  1. overweight person (colloquial)

See also

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

Declension

Inflection of pontus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative pontus pontukset
genitive pontuksen pontusten
pontuksien
partitive pontusta pontuksia
illative pontukseen pontuksiin
singular plural
nominative pontus pontukset
accusative nom. pontus pontukset
gen. pontuksen
genitive pontuksen pontusten
pontuksien
partitive pontusta pontuksia
inessive pontuksessa pontuksissa
elative pontuksesta pontuksista
illative pontukseen pontuksiin
adessive pontuksella pontuksilla
ablative pontukselta pontuksilta
allative pontukselle pontuksille
essive pontuksena pontuksina
translative pontukseksi pontuksiksi
instructive — pontuksin
abessive pontuksetta pontuksitta
comitative — pontuksineen

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos).

Pronunciation

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

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.

Case Singular Plural
nominative pontus pontī
genitive pontī pontōrum
dative pontō pontīs
accusative pontum pontōs
ablative pontō pontīs
vocative ponte pontī

Synonyms

See also

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)
  • 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
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