pontifice

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See also: pontífice

English

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Etymology

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From Latin pontificem, accusative singular of pontifex, from the noun pons, pontis (a bridge) + facere (to make). Compare pontiff.

Noun

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pontifice

  1. Bridgework; structure or edifice of a bridge.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC, signature Ll2, recto, lines 345–349:
      With joy / And tidings fraught, to Hell he now return'd, / And at the brink of Chaos, neer the foot / Of this new wondrous Pontifice, unhop't / Met who to meet him came, his Ofspring dear.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pontifice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

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Noun

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pontifice

  1. ablative singular of pontifex

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin pontifex. Doublet of pontif.

Noun

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pontifice m (plural pontifici)

  1. pontiff
    Synonym: pontif

Declension

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