Pōn'tīne, a.

a. [Fr. Pontin, It. Pontino, Lat. Pontinus or Pomptinus, an appellation given to a district in Latium, near Pometia, hence palus Pontina, or paludes Pontinae, the extensive marshy district exposed to the inundations of the Amasenus and Ufens, still called the Pontine or Pomptine marshes; It. paludi pontine.] Of or relating to a large marsh between Rome and Naples. [Written also Pomptine.]