"pontifex" meaning in Latin

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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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        }
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      "text": "Italian: pontefice"
    },
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        }
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      "text": "→ Portuguese: pontífice (learned)"
    },
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    },
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        }
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    }
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        "3": "",
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pontifice",
      "source": "declension",
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        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
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    },
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      "source": "declension",
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        "vocative"
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          "ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.105–106",
          "roman": "pontificēs illūc nunc quoque sacra ferunt.",
          "text": "adiacet antīquus Tiberīnō lūcūs Helernī:"
        }
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      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈpɔn̪t̪ifeks]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "pontiff"
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}

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    {
      "word": "pontificium"
    },
    {
      "word": "pontificius"
    },
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      "word": "pontificālis"
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      "word": "pontificātus"
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    },
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    },
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}