The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΠόντος“Black Sea”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromῥῆον“rhubarb”
- Latin · borrowed fromrhaponticum
- English todayrhapontic
From Latin rhaponticum, literally rha (“rhubarb”) ponticum (“Pontic; of the Black Sea”), from Ancient Greek ῥῆον (rhêon, “rhubarb”) and Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos, “Black Sea”).
Words from the same roots
Latinrhaponticum all →
rhaponticine
Ancient GreekΠόντος all →
Pontus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.