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Vatican

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See also: vatican

English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin Vātī̆cānus (“Vatican Hill”), further etymology unknown. The connection to vāticinārī (“to prophesy, oracle”) is folk-etymological.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈvæ.tɪ.kən/
  • enPR: vǎ′tĭ-kən[1]
  • enPR: vǎt′ĭ-kən[2]
  • Audio (US):(file)

Proper noun

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the Vatican

  1. The official residence of the Pope within Vatican City, the Vatican or Apostolic Palace.
  2. (metonymic) The papal government; the papacy, the Holy See.
  3. A city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy.
    Synonym: Vatican City
    • 2019 October 3, Ellen Curtin, “Everything You Wanted to Know about Vatican City”, in City Wonders‎[1], archived from the original on 13 June 2025:
      Unlike most other countries in the world, citizenship in Vatican City isn’t solely provided to people that are born in the country. As there are no hospitals in the Vatican State, virtually no one is born in there. Instead, Vatican citizenship is provided on a ‘jus officii’ basis.
  4. The Vatican Hill in Rome, where the palace and Vatican City are located.
    • 1856, The Art of Building in Ancient and Modern Times […], volume 1, page 75:
      He [Caligula] began to build a circus upon the Vatican.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Japanese: バチカン (Bachikan)

Translations

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Adjective

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Vatican (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the Vatican City state.
    • 2019 October 3, Ellen Curtin, “Everything You Wanted to Know about Vatican City”, in City Wonders‎[2], archived from the original on 13 June 2025:
      Unlike most other countries in the world, citizenship in Vatican City isn’t solely provided to people that are born in the country. As there are no hospitals in the Vatican State, virtually no one is born in there. Instead, Vatican citizenship is provided on a ‘jus officii’ basis.

Translations

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References

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  1. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Vatican City”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2008, column 2: “Vatican City (vǎ′tĭku̇n), […]”
  2. ^ “Vat·i·can”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 815, column 2: “Vat·i·can (vǎt′ĭ-kən), […]”

Further reading

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  • “Vatican”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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Romanian

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Romanian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Vatican m

  1. Vatican City (a city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy)
  2. the Vatican

Declension

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singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative Vatican Vaticanul
genitive-dative Vatican Vaticanului
vocative Vaticanule

See also

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countries in Europe: țările Europei (appendix)edit
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