pontifice

See also: pontífice

English

Etymology

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

Noun

pontifice

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Noun

pontifice

ablative singular of pontifex

Romanian

Etymology

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Borrowed from Latin pontifex m. Doublet of pontif m.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): [pontifitʃˈe]

Noun

pontifice m (plural pontifici)

pontiff
Synonym: pontif m

Declension

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	pontifice	pontificeul	pontifici	pontificii
genitive-dative	pontifice	pontificeului	pontifici	pontificilor
vocative	pontificeule		pontificilor