pontificum

pontificum is a Latin form of pontifex, meaning “high priest, pontiff (pontifex maximus, chief priest of Rome)”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 67 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.22: … remque amicitiam commemorat Caesarisque in se beneficia exponit; quae erant maxima: quod per eum in collegium pontificum venerat, quod provinciam Hispaniam ex praetura habuerat, quod in petitione consulatus erat sublevatus. Cuius …

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.2.7: … si nemo plus effecisset eo quem sequebatur? nihil in poetis supra Livium Andronicum, nihil in historiis supra Pontificum annales haberemus; ratibus adhuc navigaremus; non esset pictura, nisi quae lineas modo extremas umbrae, quam …

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.