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Latin
Etymology
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
PalÄtium n sg (genitive PalÄtiÄ« or PalÄtÄ«); second declension
- One of the seven hills of Rome.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
References
- 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