palatum

Learned borrowing from Latin palatum (“palate”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /paˈlatum/ [paˈla.t̪ʊm]
• Rhymes: -atum
• Syllabification: pa‧la‧tum

palatum (plural palatum-palatum)

1. (anatomy) palate

   Synonym: langit-langit

• “palatum”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• palātus

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-os, from *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).^[1] Perhaps connected to Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀𐌃𐌖𐌌 (faladum, “sky”), according to Michael L. Weiss. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paˈɫaː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [paˈlaː.tum]

palātum n (genitive palātī); second declension

1. (literally, anatomy) palate (roof of the mouth)
   1. palate (organ of taste and judgment)
2. (transferred sense) something resembling the palate; vault

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• palātīnus (adjective)
• *palātāris

• “palatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “palatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “palatum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.