Vaticanian

English

Etymology

Vatican +‎ -ian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪniən

Noun

Vaticanian (plural Vaticanians)

1. (uncommon, informal) A person from Vatican City.

Translations

a person from Vatican City

• Afrikaans: Vatikaner
• Esperanto: vatikanano
• Italian: vaticano (it) m
• Macedonian: ватиканец m (vatikanec)
• Polish: Watykańczyk (pl) m, Watykanka (pl) f
• Spanish: vaticano (es) m

Adjective

Vaticanian (not comparable)

1. (uncommon, chiefly literary) Relating to the Vatican (any sense); (figuratively) papal.

   Synonyms: Vaticanal, Vaticanic

   • 1843, George Castleden, Retribution, Loyal Lyrics, and Fugitive Pieces […], page 35:

     The pope of Rome, when all remonstrance fail’d, / As the last act of his supremacy / Commission’d Legates to assuage the feud, / Or threat the king with Vaticanian wrath.

   • 1875 December 31, “French Politics”, in Pall Mall Budget, volume 15, page 523:

     There is not the faintest reason for attributing to M. Thiers a Vaticanian infallibility in politics.

   • 1881, The Illustrated History of the World, for the English People […], volume 1, page 371:

     The Patres immediately appointed Q. Cincinnatus dictator. A sergeant brought him the announcement to the Vaticanian field, where he cultivated a juga of land with four yoke of oxen.

Translations

Vatican — see Vatican