Πόντος
From LSJ
ᾗ μήτε χλαῖνα μήτε σισύρα συμφέρει → content neither with cloak nor rug, be never satisfied, can't get no satisfaction, be hard to please
French (Bailly abrégé)
ου (ὁ) :
1 le Pont ou mer Noire ; d’ord. πόντος Εὔξεινος Pont-Euxin, càd p. antiphrase, mer hospitalière, ou πόντος ἄξεινος EUR mer inhospitalière;
2 Pont, contrée d’Asie Mineure.
Étymologie: πόντος.
English (Strong)
of Latin origin; a sea; Pontus, a region of Asia Minor: Pontus.
English (Thayer)
Πόντου, ὁ, Pontus, a region of eastern Asia Minor, bounded by the Euxine Sea (from which circumstance it took its name), Armenia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Paphlagonia (BB. DD., under the word; Ed. Meyer, Gesch. d. Königreiches Pontos (Leip. 1879)): 1 Peter 1:1.
