"pontiff" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpɒntɪf/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pontiff.wav [Southern-England] Forms: pontiffs [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French pontife, from Latin pontifex. Doublet of pontifex. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pent-}}, {{bor|en|frm|pontife}} Middle French pontife, {{der|en|la|pontifex}} Latin pontifex, {{doublet|en|pontifex}} Doublet of pontifex Head templates: {{en-noun}} pontiff (plural pontiffs)
  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) A member of the most illustrious of the colleges of priests of the Roman religion, the College of Pontiffs; a pontifex. Tags: Ancient-Rome, historical Categories (topical): Ancient Rome, Religion
    Sense id: en-pontiff-en-noun-JUQXCYuX Disambiguation of Religion: 32 35 33 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 4 36 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 60 7 33
  2. A bishop of the early Church; now specifically, the Pope. Categories (topical): Religion
    Sense id: en-pontiff-en-noun-vzqLPGgW Disambiguation of Religion: 32 35 33
  3. (figuratively) Any chief figure or leader of a religion. Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Religion
    Sense id: en-pontiff-en-noun-9u~Uq1wm Disambiguation of Religion: 32 35 33
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: pontificate Translations: панты́фік (pantýfik) [masculine] (Belarusian), понтифекс (pontifeks) [masculine] (Bulgarian), pontífex [masculine] (Catalan), 教皇 (jiàohuáng) (Chinese Mandarin), 教宗 (jiàozōng) (Chinese Mandarin), paus [masculine] (Dutch), hogepriester [masculine] (Dutch), pontifex [masculine] (Dutch), ĉefpastro (Esperanto), pontifeks (Estonian), pontiff (Finnish), pontife [masculine] (French), Pontifex [masculine] (German), ποντίφικας (pontífikas) [masculine] (Greek), pontefice (Italian), 教皇 (kyōō) (alt: きょうおう) (Japanese), 교황 (gyohwang) (alt: 敎皇) (Korean), پونتیفکس (pontifeks) (Persian), pontyfik [masculine] (Polish), pontífice (Portuguese), pontif (Romanian), понти́фик (pontífik) [masculine] (Russian), pontifex [masculine] (Slovak), papa [masculine] (Spanish), pontífice [masculine] (Spanish), pontipise (Tagalog), понти́фік (pontýfik) [masculine] (Ukrainian), giáo hoàng (Vietnamese)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.