pontificado
Spanish, noun/pontifiˈkado/
pontificado is spelled P-O-N-T-I-F-I-C-A-D-O (11 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 34,926th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pontificado is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “pontificate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of pontificar.
What does pontificado mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepontificate
- 2
masculinepapacy
verb
- 1
past participle of pontificar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Participio de pontificar.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pontificado
- pontificados plural
- pontificada feminine
- pontificadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pontificado?
- /pontifiˈkado/
- [põn̪.t̪i.fiˈka.ð̞o]
- [põn̪t̪ifiˈkað̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pontificado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pontificado in Spanish?
pontificado appears 1.0 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).