pontifex
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: pon‧ti‧fex
Noun
pontifex (plural pontifices)
- (historical) A pontiff, or high priest, in Ancient Rome.
Latin
Etymology
Often interpreted as a compound originally meaning “bridge-maker”, from pōns (“bridge”) + -fex (“suffix representing a maker or producer”), either metaphorically “one who negotiates between gods and men” or literally if at some point the social class which supplied the priests was more or less identical with engineers that were responsible for building bridges.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpon.ti.feks/, [ˈpɔn̪t̪ɪfɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpon.ti.feks/, [ˈpɔn̪t̪ifeks]
Noun
pontifex m (genitive pontificis); third declension
- a high priest, State minister in ancient Rome
- a pontiff or bishop of the early Christian church, now specifically the Pope
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pontifex | pontificēs |
Genitive | pontificis | pontificum |
Dative | pontificī | pontificibus |
Accusative | pontificem | pontificēs |
Ablative | pontifice | pontificibus |
Vocative | pontifex | pontificēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “pontifex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pontifex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pontifex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pontifex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pontifex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pontifex in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “pontifex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 480
Slovak
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pontifex.
Pronunciation
Noun
pontifex m (genitive singular pontifika, nominative plural pontifikovia, genitive plural pontifikov, declension pattern of chlap)
- a high priest in ancient Rome
- a pontiff or bishop of the early Christian church, now specifically the Pope
Declension
Declension of pontifex
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | pontifex | pontifikovia |
genitive | pontifika | pontifikov |
dative | pontifikovi | pontifikom |
accusative | pontifika | pontifikov |
locative | pontifikovi | pontifikoch |
instrumental | pontifikom | pontifikmi |
Further reading
- “pontifex”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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