pontis

pontis 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 genitive singular masculine noun or ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

Found 47 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.17.2: Itaque, etsi summa difficultas faciendi pontis proponebatur propter latitudinem, rapiditatem altitudinemque fluminis, tamen id sibi contendendum aut aliter non traducendum exercitum existimabat.

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.