palatine

IPA: pˈæɫʌtaɪn

Root Word: Palatine

One of the seven hills of Rome; the site of the earliest settlement.
A village in Cook County, Illinois.
A hamlet in County Carlow, Ireland.
A town in Montgomery County, New York.
A feudal lord (ellipsis of count palatine.) or a bishop possessing palatine powers.
A palace official, especially in an imperial palace.
(capitalized, rare, obsolete) A native or inhabitant of the Palatinate.
(in the plural, historical) The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace.
(historical) A fur cape or stole for women which covers the neck and shoulders.
(historical) Ellipsis of county palatine.. [(historical) A county, usually a marchland, whose ruler was granted near-royal authority within its area while still owing allegiance to the realm's king or emperor.]
(anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine bone.. [(anatomy) Either of a pair of bones that are situated behind and between the maxillae, in humans are of extremely irregular form, and make up parts of the eye socket, the nasal cavity, and the hard palate.]

(historical) (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
Subject to palatine authority. (of a territory)
Pertaining to the Elector Palatine or the German Palatinate or its people.
Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor.
Synonym of palatial.
(anatomy) Of or relating to the palate or to a palatine bone.

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