palatium

See also: Palatium

Latin

Etymology

From Palātium (“Palatine Hill”), one of the seven hills of Rome, where aristocrats built large homes.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈlaː.ti.um/, [päˈɫ̪äːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈlat.t͡si.um/, [päˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

1. A palace, large residence.

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: παλάτιον (palátion), παλάτιν (palátin), παλάτι (paláti)
  • Classical Syriac: ܦܠܛܝܢ (pālāṭīn)
  • Georgian: პალატი (ṗalaṭi)
  • Old Armenian: պալատն (palatn), պաղատն (pałatn), պալատ (palat), պաղատ (pałat)
    • Armenian: պալատ (palat)
  • Russian: пала́та (paláta)
• Arabic: بلاط (balāṭ)
• Asturian: palaciu
• Danish: palads
• Dutch: paleis
• Catalan: palau
• English: palace
• French: palace, palais
• Friulian: palaç
• Galician: palacio, pazo
• German: Palast, Pfalz
• Italian: palazzo
• Occitan: palatz
• Polish: pałac
• Portuguese: paço, palácio
• Romanian: palat
• Romansh: palaz, palazi, palast
• Sardinian: palatzu, palatu, palàtziu
• Serbo-Croatian: pàlača, pàlata
• Sicilian: palazzu
• Slovene: paláča
• Spanish: palacio, pazo, palazzo
• Ukrainian: палац (palac)
• Venetan: pałaso, palaso, palaç

References

• “palatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palatium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• palatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “palatium”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “palatium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palatium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “palatium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly