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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paˈlaː.ti.um/, [päˈɫ̪äːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈlat.t͡si.um/, [päˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

palātium n (genitive palātiī or palātī); second declension

1. a palace; large residence

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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)
    • → 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

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 (2016 July 16 (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