pontificatus

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Latin

Etymology

From pontifex m +‎ -ātus.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pon.ti.fiˈkaː.tus/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pon.ti.fiˈka.tus/,

Noun

pontificātus m (genitive pontificātūs); fourth declension

pontificate (office of a pontiff/pontifex)
Synonym: pontificium n

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	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
→ German: Pontifikat
Galician: pontificado
Italian: pontificato
Polish: pontyfikat
Portuguese: pontificado
Romanian: pontificat
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.

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