Pontifexとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from Latin pontifex. Doublet of pontiff.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈpɒn.təˌfɛks/, /ˈpɒn.tɪˌfɛks/
• ハイフネーション: pon‧ti‧fex

名詞

pontifex (plural pontifices)

1. (historical) A pontiff, state minister, or high priest, in Ancient Rome.
   • 1995, Julius Evola, “Regality”, in Guido Stucco, transl., Revolt against the Modern World‎, Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, translation of Rivolta contro il mondo moderno, →ISBN, page 7:

     Every traditional civilization is characterized by the presence of beings who […] embody within the temporal order the living and efficacious presence of a power that comes from above. One of these types of beings is the pontifex, according to the inner meaning of the word and according to the original value of the function that he exercised.

Further reading

• “pontifex”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpɔn.tɪ.fɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpɔn.ti.feks]
• ハイフネーション: pon‧ti‧fex

名詞

pontifex m (genitive pontificis); third declension

1. an ancient Roman high priest, state minister, pontiff

   Synonym: antistes m or f

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.105–106:

     adiacet antīquus Tiberīnō lūcūs Helernī:
     pontificēs illūc nunc quoque sacra ferunt.

     The ancient grove of Helernus is near by the Tiber [River]:
     Even now the high priests bring sacrifices to there.
     (See: Helernus; “Tiberinus” is an alternative name for the Tiber River.)

2. a pontiff or bishop of the early Christian church, now specifically the Pope

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参照

• “pontĭfex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pontifex in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1777
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “pontifex”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “pontifex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1200.
• Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “ponti-fex”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎, 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Latino-Sinicum [translated as: 大司敎／大司教; 牧 (mù); Summus pontifex translated as: 敎皇／教皇], in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• "PONTIFEX", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pontifex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “PO´NTIFEX”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “Pontĭfex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Further reading

• pontifex in Ramminger, Johann (May 2026 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “pōns, -[on]tis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 479–480