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

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [paˈɫaː.ti.ũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [paˈlat̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]

Noun

palātium n (genitive palātiī or palātī); second declension

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
- Galician: pazo, pacio, paço (reintegrationist)
  - → Spanish: pazo
- Portuguese: paço
Old Spanish: palaço
Piedmontese: palass
Romansch: palaz, palazi, palast
Sardinian: palatzu, palatu, palàtziu
Sicilian: palazzu
Venetan: pałaso, palaso, palaç
Borrowings:
- into Romance:
  - → Asturian: palaciu
  - → Galician: palacio
  - → Old Spanish: palacio
    - Spanish: palacio
  - → Portuguese: palácio
- Other:
  - → Proto-Albanian: *paletja
    - Albanian: pëllas
  - → Ancient Greek: παλάτιον (palátion), παλάτιν (palátin)
    - Greek: παλάτι (paláti)
    - → Aramaic: פַּלָּטִין (palatin)
      - → Arabic: بلاط (balāṭ)
    - → Classical Syriac: ܦܠܛܝܢ (pālāṭīn)
    - → Georgian: პალატი (ṗalaṭi)
    - → Old Armenian: պալատն (palatn), պաղատն (pałatn), պալատ (palat), պաղատ (pałat)
      - Armenian: պալատ (palat)
    - → Romanian: palat
    - → Russian: пала́та (paláta)
    - → Ukrainian: палата (palata)
  - → Old Norse: pallaz
    - Danish: palads
    - Norwegian Bokmål: palass
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: palass
    - Swedish: palats
      - → Finnish: palatsi
  - → Old High German: pfalinza
    - German: Pfalz
      - → English: Pfalz
  - → Serbo-Croatian: pàlača, pàlata
  - → Slovene: paláča
  - → Czech: palác m
    - → Polish: pałac m
      - → Ukrainian: палац m (palac)

References

“palatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"palatium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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

^ 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

[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

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