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pontificem

pontificem is a Latin form of pontifex, meaning “high priest, pontiff (pontifex maximus, chief priest of Rome)”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro Rege Deiotaro 31: O tempora, o mores! Cn. Domitius ille quem nos pueri consulem, censorem, pontificem maximum vidimus, cum tribunus plebis M. Scaurum principem civitatis in iudicium populi vocavisset Scaurique s …

All forms of pontifex (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.