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ponti

ponti is a Latin form of pontus, meaning “the sea; (Pontus) the Black Sea, a kingdom on its coast”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun or dative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of pons, “bridge”.

Found 163 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.17.10: et aliae item supra pontem mediocri spatio, ut, si arborum trunci sive naves deiciendi operis causa essent a barbaris missae, his defensoribus earum rerum vis minueretur neu ponti nocerent.

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.129: … vis imperatoris uno in genere pulcherrime facta, unum illud Macedonicum quod in Capitolio vidimus, alterum in Ponti ore et angustiis, tertium quod Syracusis ante Verrem praetorem fuit. illud Flamininus ita ex aede sua sustuli …

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.