ponte

ponte is a Latin form of pontus, meaning “the sea; (Pontus) the Black Sea, a kingdom on its coast”.

It can also be a form of pons, “bridge”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun or vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 114 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.29.3: quae ripas Vbiorum contingebat, in longitudinem pedum ducentorum rescindit atque in extremo ponte turrim tabulatorum quattuor constituit praesidiumque cohortium duodecim pontis tuendi causa ponit magnisque e …

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 10.34a.4: … inde tua auctoritate me tuendum existimes, quo tibi plura tuo merito debeo. vale. D. xi K. Iun. ex castris ex Ponte Argenteo.

All forms of pontus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.