pontificatus

Latin

Noun

pontificātus m (genitive pontificātūs); fourth declension

1. pontificate (office of a pontif/pontifex)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pontificātus	pontificātūs
Genitive	pontificātūs	pontificātuum
Dative	pontificātuī	pontificātibus
Accusative	pontificātum	pontificātūs
Ablative	pontificātū	pontificātibus
Vocative	pontificātus	pontificātūs

Descendants

• Catalan: pontificat
• English: pontificate
• French: pontificat
• Galician: pontificado
• Italian: pontificato
• Polish: pontyfikat
• Portuguese: pontificado
• Spanish: pontificado

References

• “pontificatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pontificatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pontificatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.