antistitium

From antistes (“chief-priest”) +‎ -ium (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [an.tɪsˈtɪ.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [an̪.t̪isˈt̪it̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]

antistitium n (genitive antistitiī or antistitī); second declension

1. The chief-priest's office

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “antistitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antistitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.