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Definition: PONTIC |
PONTICAdjective1. Of or pertaining to the Pontus, Euxine, or Black Sea. |
Date "PONTIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references) |
Etymology: Pontic \Pon"tic\, adjective. [Latin expression Ponticus, Greek, from the sea, especially, the Black Sea.]. (Websters 1913) |
"PONTIC" is a common misspelling or typo for: optic, panic, peptic, phonetic, phonic, poetic, poetics, Pontiac, portico. |
Crosswords: PONTIC |
| Non-English Usage: "PONTIC" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (pontic). |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pontic | 8 |
1990 grand pontic prix red | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PONTIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | черноморски (black sea), понтийски. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | èernomořský. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kaspisk stamsild (Black Sea shad, Pontic shad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Zwartezee-elft (Black Sea shad, Pontic shad), Zwarte-Zee elft (Black Sea shad, Pontic shad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mustanmerensilli (Black Sea shad, Pontic shad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | alose de la mer noire (Pontic shad), \SHC (Pontic shad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Donauhering (Black Sea shad, Pontic shad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φρίσσα του όντου (Black Sea shad, Pontic shad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alosa del Mar Nero (Black Sea shad, Pontic shad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onticpay sável do Mar Negro (Black Sea shad, Pontic shad). (various references) pontic. (various references) sábalo del Mar Negro (Black Sea shad, Pontic shad). (various references) svartahavsstaksill (Black Sea shad, Pontic shad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Alosa pontica, Caspialosa pontica. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "PONTIC" (pronounced 'Pon"tic'): Absolutistic, Acatalectic, Acataleptic, Acephalocystic, Acetic, Acherontic, Acroteleutic, Adiaphoristic, Agrestic, Albinistic, Altruistic, Amnestic, Amphiblastic, Amyloplastic, Anacamptic, Anacathartic, Anachronistic, Anaclastic, Anaglyptic, Analectic, Analeptic, Anamnestic, Anapestic, Anaplastic, Anapodeictic, Anastaltic, Anatreptic, Animistic, Annalistic, Antapoplectic, Antarctic, Antephialtic, Antepileptic, Anthelmintic, Antiapoplectic, Anticlastic, Antiephialtic, Antiepileptic, Antigalastic, Antiorgastic, Antiperistaltic, Antiplastic, Antiscorbutic, Antispastic, Antonomastic, Antorgastic, Aoristic, Aortic, Aphlogistic, Aphotic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: ontic, optic, picot, pinot, pinto, piton, point, tonic, topic. | |
-2 letters: cion, coin, coni, icon, into, otic, pint, pion, topi. | |
-3 letters: con, cop, cot, ion, nip, nit, not, opt, pic, pin, pit, poi, pot, tic, tin, tip, ton, top. | |
-4 letters: in, it, no, on, op, pi, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: caption, entopic, nepotic, paction. | |
+2 letters: captions, coapting, compting, coopting, cooption, entropic, hypnotic, inceptor, leptonic, optician, pactions, panoptic, pentomic, peptonic, phonetic, photonic, phytonic, picoting, platonic, plutonic, pontific, protonic, pycnotic, pyknotic, pythonic, synoptic, typhonic, unpoetic. | |
+3 letters: anthropic, captioned, cocaptain, coempting, competing, complaint, compliant, computing, conscript, cooptions, deception, depiction, diplontic, exception, genotypic, haplontic, hypnotics, hypotonic, impaction, impotence, impotency, inception, inceptors, incorrupt, inotropic, inspector, intercrop, monotypic, nephrotic, nonimpact, nonpoetic, octupling, opticians, outpacing, pantropic, phonetics, photonics, pinocytic, placation, plication, pocketing, potencies, prolactin, punctilio, reception, toponymic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 4E 54 49 43 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- -. - .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001110 01010100 01001001 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O N T I C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 004E 0054 0049 0043 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)504948544337 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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