Palatium
See also: palatium
Latin
editEtymology
editOf uncertain origin. Either from:
- Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀𐌃 (falad, “sky”), the same source as Palēs (“Pales, the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestock”);
- palātum (“roof of the mouth; dome, vault”), itself perhaps related to the Etruscan term above;[1]
- pālus (“stake; enclosure”).
Proper noun
editPalātium n sg (genitive Palātiī or Palātī); second declension
- One of the seven hills of Rome.
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | Palātium |
Genitive | Palātiī Palātī1 |
Dative | Palātiō |
Accusative | Palātium |
Ablative | Palātiō |
Vocative | Palātium |
Locative | Palātiī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “Palatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Palatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “palātum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 440