# pontifical
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pontificālis.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɒnˈtɪfɪk(ə)l/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /pɑnˈtɪfɪk(ə)l/

### Adjective

pontifical (comparative more pontifical, superlative most pontifical)
* Of or pertaining to a pontiff.
** Of or pertaining to a bishop; episcopal.
** Of or pertaining to a pope; papal.
* Pompous, dignified or dogmatic.
* Splendid; magnificent.
* Of or pertaining to the pontifices of Ancient Rome.
* (chiefly poetic) Of or relating to the building or forming of bridges.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Now had they brought the work by wondrous art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock / Over the vexed abyss.

#### Derived terms

* pontifical cell

#### Translations
### Noun

pontifical (plural pontificals)
* A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.
** 1995, Richard A. Jackson, Ordines coronationis Franciae […] , page 30:Both ordines are related to an ordo in a pontifical in Reims, the Ordo of 1200 (Ordo XIX). The latter was to be consulted again and again, and its formulas were to have a marked effect upon the French ceremony; […]
** 2001, Leon F. Strieder, The Promise of Obedience: A Ritual History, page 32:William Durandus, bishop of Mende in the south of France, compiled a pontifical in three books. William never intended his work to be a universal pontifical, but its clarity of arrangement and quality of substance, along with […]
** 2007, Terence Bailey, Alma Colk Santosuosso, editors, Music in Medieval Europe […] , Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 199:If the editio princeps was an attempt to create an authoritative version of the pontifical, such was not yet attainable.

#### Usage notes

The plural, pontificals, refers to "the vestments of a bishop".

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pontificālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔ̃.ti.fi.kal/

### Adjective

pontifical (feminine pontificale, masculine plural pontificaux, feminine plural pontificales)
* pontifical

#### See also

* papal

### Further reading

* “pontifical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French pontifical, from Latin pontificalis. By surface analysis, pontifice +‎ -al.

### Adjective

pontifical m or n (feminine singular pontificală, masculine plural pontificali, feminine and neuter plural pontificale)
* pontifical

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pontifiˈkal/ [põn̪.t̪i.fiˈkal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: pon‧ti‧fi‧cal

### Adjective

pontifical m or f (masculine and feminine plural pontificales)
* pontifical

### Further reading

* “pontifical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10