palatium

See also: Palatium

Latin

Etymology

    From Palātium (Palatine Hill), one of the seven hills of Rome, where aristocrats built large homes; see there for more.[1]

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    palātium n (genitive palātiī or palātī); second declension

    1. a palace; large residence

    Declension

    Second-declension noun (neuter).

    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

    • Catalan: palau
    • Friulian: palaç
    • Italian: palazzo (see there for further descendants)
    • Occitan: palatz
    • Old French: palais (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: paaço
    • Old Spanish: palaço
    • Piedmontese: palass
    • Romansh: palaz, palazi, palast
    • Sardinian: palatzu, palatu, palàtziu
    • Sicilian: palazzu
    • Venetan: pałaso, palaso, palaç
    • Borrowings:

    References

    • palatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "palatium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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 (16 July 2016 (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
    1. ^ 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