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Pon·tus

 (pŏn′təs)
An ancient country of northeast Asia Minor along the southern coast of the Black Sea. Established in the fourth century bc, it flourished under Mithridates VI until his defeat by Pompey of Rome in 66.

Pon′tic (-tĭk) adj.
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Pontic

(ˈpɒntɪk)
adj
(Placename) denoting or relating to the Black Sea
[C15: from Latin Ponticus, from Greek, from Pontos Pontus]
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The son Of Macedonian Philip had ere these Won Asia, and the throne of Cyrus held At his dispose; young Scipio had brought down The Carthaginian pride; young Pompey quelled The Pontic king, and in triumph had rode.
They cover the historical background of the Asia Minor dialects; agglutinative noun inflection in Cappadocian; two Turkish suffixes in Pharasoit: constraints against phrasal bases; the morphology of Silliot: paradigmatic defectiveness, paradigmatic leveling; and affix pleonasm; adverbial constructions in a dialectical context: a case study from Pontic; the Smyrna dialect: loanword adaptation in a multilingual setting; affixoids and verb borrowing in Aivaliot morphology; subtractive imperative forms in Bithynian Greek; morphological innovations in Propontis Tsakonian; and the Greek of Ottoman-era Adrianoupolis.
The patient opted for the economic FRC bridge option with the use of his own avulsed tooth as a pontic. Therefore, it was decided to use the avulsed tooth as a natural pontic for the anterior aesthetic FRC bridge fabrication.
(9) Catherine the Great contemplated Hellenism and various Greek projects as her viceroy Grigorii Potemkin prepared newly acquired Crimea for integration into a vast "New Russian" domain (Novorossiia) across the Pontic steppe.
"As the mechanism of assigning a portion of taxes to support public beneficial activities is taking roots in Slovakia, its revenues are growing too," said Pavel Hrica from the Pontic Foundation.
Kim, "Splinted porcelain laminate veneers with a natural tooth pontic: a provisional approach for conservative and esthetic treatment of a challenging case," Operative Dentistry, vol.
It was near the Black Sea beaches where we went for holidays along with the burnt-skinned East Germans and Hungarians, Poles, and Czechoslovaks, some of whom went swimming for their lives, swimming toward Turkey, until they were swept out to their deaths; or made a run for the land border in this scratchy forest; or went up in an air balloon and crossed south into Turkey, like a bird, like the thousands of storks that darkened our Pontic skies on their way to Africa.
The Pontic was named in honor of his discoverer, the first American ambassador to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett, who was a botanist and doctor, and discovered the plant during a diplomatic trip to Mexico.