proper noun
Pont is masculine in French.
Pontus (an ancient kingdom and cultural region covering the eastern half of the southern coast of the Black Sea, in Anatolia in modern Turkey; traditionally Greek-speaking); Pontus (a former province of the Roman Empire covering the western half of the Pontus region unified with Bithynia; in full, Bithynia et Pontus)
Learned borrowing from Latin Pontus, from Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos).