Hellespont

Hellespont

English

Location of the Hellespont (in yellow).

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἑλλήσποντος (Hellḗspontos).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Hellespont

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

     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 German: Hellespont (de) m Greek: Ελλήσποντος (el) m (Ellíspontos) Ancient: Ἑλλήσποντος m (Hellḗspontos) Irish: Heilléaspontas m Latin: Hellēspontus m Russian: Геллеспо́нт m (Gellespónt) Spanish: Helesponto m