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Ποντικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ποντικός Ποντική Ποντικόν

Structure: Ποντικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. from Pontus, Pontic, the bird-cherry

Examples

  • ’ τοὺσ δὲ Ποντικοὺσ ἐκ τοῦ πολλοῦ ἥκειν πόντου ὥσπερ ἐκ τοῦ ὀλέθρου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 443)
  • ἐν σαργανίσιν ἄξω ταρίχουσ Ποντικούσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 893)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὴν Βακτριανὴν κατέσχον καὶ τῆσ Ἀρμενίασ κατεκτήσαντο τὴν ἀρίστην γῆν, ἣν καὶ ἐπώνυμον ἑαυτῶν κατέλιπον τὴν Σακασηνήν, καὶ μέχρι Καππαδόκων καὶ μάλιστα τῶν πρὸσ Εὐξείνῳ οὓσ Ποντικοὺσ νῦν καλοῦσι, προῆλθον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 8 7:2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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