pontification

pontification

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English pontificate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English pontification

    From pontificate + -ion.

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

    Noun

    pontification (countable and uncountable, plural pontifications)

    1. The act of pontificating
      • 2007 December 17, Daniel M. Gold, “The Early Years of Rock, Later Than Previously Thought”, in New York Times‎[1]:
        It occasionally suffers from the pontification so deservedly satirized in rockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap.
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