palatium
See also: Palatium
Latin
Etymology
From Palātium (“Palatine Hill”), one of the seven hills of Rome, where aristocrats built large homes,
Either from:
- Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀𐌃 (falad, “sky”), the same source as Palēs (“Pales, the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestock”);
- pālus (“stake; enclosure”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /paˈlaː.ti.um/, [päˈɫ̪äːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈlat.t͡si.um/, [päˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]
Noun
palātium n (genitive palātiī or palātī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | palātium | palātia |
Genitive | palātiī palātī1 |
palātiōrum |
Dative | palātiō | palātiīs |
Accusative | palātium | palātia |
Ablative | palātiō | palātiīs |
Vocative | palātium | palātia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Ancient Greek: παλάτιον (palátion), παλάτιν (palátin)
- → Asturian: palaciu
- Catalan: palau
- Friulian: palaç
- → Galician: palacio
- Italian: palazzo
- Occitan: palatz
- → Old Norse: pallaz
- Old French: palais
- → Old High German: pfalinza
- Old Galician-Portuguese: paaço
- Piedmontese: palass
- → Portuguese: palácio
- Romansch: palaz, palazi, palast
- Sardinian: palatzu, palatu, palàtziu
- Serbo-Croatian: pàlača, pàlata
- Sicilian: palazzu
- → Slovene: paláča
- → Spanish: palacio
- 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