pontifex.
high priest/pontiff; (of Roman supreme college of priests); bishop (Bee); pope;
Meaning & usage
an ancient Roman high priest, state minister, pontiff
a pontiff or bishop of the early Christian church, now specifically the Pope
Where this word comes from
Often interpreted as a compound originally meaning “bridge-maker”, from Proto-Italic *pontifaks, equivalent to pōns, pontis m (“bridge”) + -fex, -ficis m (suffix representing a maker or producer), either metaphorically “one who negotiates between gods and men” or literally if at some point the social class which supplied the priests was more or less identical with engineers that were responsible for building bridges. Compare Sanskrit पथिकृत् (pathikṛ́t, “path-maker”), attested as an epithet of rishis in the Rig Veda.
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