Palatium
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See also: palatium
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of uncertain origin. Either from:
- Etruscan ššššš (falad, āskyā), the same source as PalÄs (āPales, the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestockā);
- palÄtum (āroof of the mouth; dome, vaultā), itself perhaps related to the Etruscan term above;[1]
- pÄlus (āstake; enclosureā).
Proper noun
[edit]PalÄtium n sg (genitive PalÄtiÄ« or PalÄtÄ«); second declension
- One of the seven hills of Rome.
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | PalÄtium |
Genitive | PalÄtiÄ« PalÄtÄ«1 |
Dative | PalÄtiÅ |
Accusative | PalÄtium |
Ablative | PalÄtiÅ |
Vocative | PalÄtium |
Locative | PalÄtiÄ« |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- āPalatiumā, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Palatium in Gaffiot, FƩlix (1934) Dictionnaire illustrƩ latin-franƧais, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) āpalÄtumā, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, āISBN, page 440