1520s, "office of a bishop" (a sense now obsolete), noun of action from past-participle stem of Medieval Latin pontificare (see pontificate (v.)). Meaning "something pontificated; act of pontificating" is from 1925.
Pontic
pontifex
pontiff
pontifical
pontificate
pontification
pontoon
Pontus
pony
ponytail
Ponzi scheme
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