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Pontic, a.1|ˈpɒntɪk|
[ad. L. Ponticus, a. Gr. Ποντικός, f. πόντος sea, spec. the Black Sea, hence the country of Pontus.]
1. Of, belonging to, found in, or obtained from, the district of Pontus: esp. in names of plants and animals, e.g. Pontic nut, the hazel nut; Pontic rhubarb, Rheum rhaponticum; Pontic wormwood, Artemisia pontica.
1551Turner Herbal i. A iv, Those ij. kindes of wormwode which diuerse take for pontyke wormwode, are none of pontike wormwod. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxix. §4. 317 The Ponticke Rubarbe is lesser and slenderer then that of Barbarie. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 127 Those that haue their skins red, are the right Ponticke Nuts, and are..the best Filberds. 1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint., Providence viii, Gladly will I, like Pontick sheep, Unto my wormwood-diet keep. 1726Swift Let. 15 Oct. in Pope Corr. (1956) II. 407 They must have been pontic mice, which as Olavs Magnus assures us always devours whatever is green. 1887A. T. de Vere Legends & Rec. Church & Empire 208 Thou Pontic Paradise! 1895W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 4) i. ix. 126 We too often see the common pontic kind [of rhododendron]. 1906Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 167 I've tramped Britain and I've tramped Gaul, And the Pontic shore where the snow-flakes fall. 1935Discovery July 199/1 There is, e.g., another orthopter which lives in the Pontic and west Mediterranean areas, and in some places in Central Europe as a ‘Pontic relic’. 1956R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xv. 178, I lay in a swoon, pretending to be dead, because the barbarous Pontic natives, the Mossynoici, were all about.
b. Pontic Sea, the Black Sea.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Germanie i. (1622) 258 Danubius..falleth by six channels into the Ponticke sea. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 453. 1865 Swinburne Atalanta 2132 The thunder of Pontic seas.
c. Of or pertaining to the ancient kingdom of Pontus, its kings (see Mithridatic a.), its people, or the dialect of Greek attributed to them. Also as n.
1665D. Lloyd tr. Plutarch's Worthies 372 According to the Pontick Kings dream of floating on the waters. 1816Byron Dream viii, in Prisoner of Chillon 44 Like to the Pontic monarch of old days, He fed on poisons, and they had no power. 1939[see Median n. 2]. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 267 It would not be surprising if the language known to the Greeks as Pontic were a descendant of Kaskian. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 115/2 An independent Pontic kingdom with its capital at Amaseia was established at the end of the 4th century BC in the wake of Alexander's conquests. Ibid. Macropædia VIII. 396/2 The Asia Minor dialects [of Greek] also display archaic features (e.g., Pontic e for ancient ē in certain word elements).
d. Anthropol. Designating a type of peoples identified in the Balkans and southern Russia (see quots.). Also as n.
[1932V. Bunak in Zeitschr. für Morphologie u. Anthropologie XXX. 471 Die zwei südlichen analogen Kombinationen—nordkaukasische und ostbalkanische—sind untereinander ähnlicher und stehen von den nordpontischen Varietät weiter ab. Sie bilden eine andere Rasse des östlichen mediterranen Zweigs, den ich vorläufig als pontische Rasse..bezeichnen werde.] 1939C. S. Coon Races Europe xii. 617 The Mediterranean racial divison which the Russian anthropologists call Pontic..is with little doubt of Neolithic date in southern Russia, Rumania, Bulgaria, and the Hellespont region, and probably in Greece and the Aegean. Ibid. 679 Pontic. A variety of Mediterranean or Atlanto-Mediterranean,..is concentrated in Bulgaria and in the Rumanian lowlands; it also is found in the Caucasus and Ukraine and westward sporadically as far as Germany, Poland, and Lithuania.
†2. Having a somewhat sour and astringent taste. [? like Pontic rhubarb, or Pontic wormwood.] Obs.
1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. Theat. Chem. Brit. (1652) 74 And so is Sowerish tast called Sapor Pontick, And lesse Sower allso called Sapor Stiptick. 1572J. Jones Bathes of Bath iii. 26 b, Spittle, not bitter, but pontique or harshe. 1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 218 Somewhat tart and sowrish, and as it is commonly tearmed, Ponticke: such a relish..as is in a Grape..being not as yet come to his perfect ripenesse and maturity. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. viii. 272 Causticks..close and bind the Veins, by reason of their pontick, styptick parts. |