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Pontiff
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(pontiffs) The Pontiff is the Pope. (FORMAL) The Pontiff celebrated mass in Mexico City. = Pope N-COUNT: usu the N
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noun Etymology: French pontif, from Latin pontific-, pontifex Date: 1626 1. pontifex 2. bishop; specifically often capitalized pope 1 ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. RC Ch. (in full sovereign or supreme pontiff) the Pope. Etymology: F pontife (as PONTIFEX) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. римский папа (также sovereign pontiff, supreme pontiff) 2. епископ, архиерей 3. первосвященник 4. др-рим. понтифик ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1596, "high priest," from Fr. pontif, from L. pontifex, title of a Roman high priest, probably from pont-, stem of pons "bridge" + -fex, -ficis, root of facere "make." If so, the word originally meant "bridge-maker," or "path-maker." Weekley points out that, "bridge-building has always been regarded as a pious work of divine inspiration." Or the term may be metaphoric of bridging the earthly world and the realm of the gods. Other suggestions trace it to Oscan-Umbrian puntis "propitiary offering," or to a lost Etruscan word, altered by folk-etymology to resemble the L. for "bridge-maker." Used for "bishop" in Church Latin, but not recorded in that sense in Eng. until 1677. Pontificate (v.) "issue dogmatic decrees" is first attested 1825. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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