Hellespont

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἑλλήσποντος (Hellḗspontos).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛl.ɪ.spɒnt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛl.ɪs.pɑnt/

Proper noun

the Hellespont

1. (historical) The strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea to the west.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

     That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers.

Synonyms

• Dardanelles

Translations

strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea

Armenian: Հելլեսպոնտոս (Hellespontos) Finnish: Hellespontos French: Hellespont (fr) m Galician: Dardanelos Georgian: ჰელესპონტი (helesṗonṭi), ჰელესპონტის სრუტე (helesṗonṭis sruṭe) German: Hellespont (de) m Greek: Ελλήσποντος (el) m (Ellíspontos) Ancient: Ἑλλήσποντος m (Hellḗspontos) Hungarian: Hellészpontosz Irish: Heilléaspontas m Latin: Hellēspontus m Marathi: हेलिस्पाँट (helispŏṇṭa) Russian: Геллеспо́нт m (Gellespónt) Spanish: Helesponto m