palatinus

See also: Palatinus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.ɫaːˈtiː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.laˈtiː.nus]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin Palātium

Latin palātium

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Latin palātīnus

From palātium (“a palace”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix).

Adjective

palātīnus (feminine palātīna, neuter palātīnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (monarchy) relating to the palace
2. (monarchy) relating to counties palatine; palatine

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	palātīnus	palātīna	palātīnum		palātīnī	palātīnae	palātīna
genitive	palātīnī	palātīnae	palātīnī		palātīnōrum	palātīnārum	palātīnōrum
dative	palātīnō	palātīnae	palātīnō		palātīnīs
accusative	palātīnum	palātīnam	palātīnum		palātīnōs	palātīnās	palātīna
ablative	palātīnō	palātīnā	palātīnō		palātīnīs
vocative	palātīne	palātīna	palātīnum		palātīnī	palātīnae	palātīna

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: palatí
• → French: palatin
  • Middle English:
    • → English: palatine
• → Galician: palatino
• Italian: paladino (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: palatino
• → Portuguese: palatino
• → Spanish: palatino

Noun

palātīnus m (genitive palātīnī); second declension

1. palatine
   • 1626, Salomon Neugebauer, “Cracus.”, in Icones et vitae principum ac regum Poloniae omnium, page 3:

     Posteriate Lechi deficiente, Poloni comitiis Gnesnae de Repub.stabilienda habiis duodecim ex Procerum numero secundum totidem Palatinatus seu Provincias deligunt, quos Palatinos seu Woievodas, hoc est, duces belli lingua patria nominarunt, illisq; rerum summam committunt.

     Later, when Lech failed, the Poles, having held an assembly at Gnesna to establish a republic, elected twelve nobles from the same number of Palatinates or Provinces, whom they named Palatines or Voivodes, that is, war leaders in their native language, and entrusted the sum of their affairs to them.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	palātīnus	palātīnī
genitive	palātīnī	palātīnōrum
dative	palātīnō	palātīnīs
accusative	palātīnum	palātīnōs
ablative	palātīnō	palātīnīs
vocative	palātīne	palātīnī

Derived terms

• palātīnātus

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?

Proto-Indo-European *pel-?

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-osder.

Latin palātum

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Latin palātīnus

From palātum (“a palate”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix).

Adjective

palātīnus (feminine palātīna, neuter palātīnum); first/second-declension adjective (New Latin)

1. (anatomy) of or pertaining to the palate; palatine

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	palātīnus	palātīna	palātīnum		palātīnī	palātīnae	palātīna
genitive	palātīnī	palātīnae	palātīnī		palātīnōrum	palātīnārum	palātīnōrum
dative	palātīnō	palātīnae	palātīnō		palātīnīs
accusative	palātīnum	palātīnam	palātīnum		palātīnōs	palātīnās	palātīna
ablative	palātīnō	palātīnā	palātīnō		palātīnīs
vocative	palātīne	palātīna	palātīnum		palātīnī	palātīnae	palātīna

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: palatí
• → French: palatin
  • → English: palatine
  • → Romanian: palatin
• → Galician: palatino
• → Italian: palatino
• → Portuguese: palatino
• → Spanish: palatino

References

• “pălātīnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Pălātīnus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “palatinus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray