pontifex: all forms
pontifex means “high priest, pontiff (pontifex maximus, chief priest of Rome)”. Below is its full declension in Latin.
Forms
| Masculine | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | pontifex |
| Genitive | pontificis |
| Dative | pontifici |
| Accusative | pontificem |
| Ablative | pontifice |
| Vocative | pontifex |
| Locative | pontifice |
| Masculine | |
|---|---|
| Nominative | pontifices |
| Genitive | pontificum · pontificium |
| Dative | pontificibus |
| Accusative | pontifices |
| Ablative | pontificibus |
| Vocative | pontifices |
| Locative | pontificibus |
Meaning and examples of pontifex
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.