Vatican City

English

Etymology

Calque of Italian Città del Vaticano, from Latin Cīvitās Vāticāna (“Vatican City”), referring to the Vatican hill, ultimately from vāticinor (“I prophesy”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈvæ.tɪ.kən ˈsɪt.i/

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• Rhymes: -ɪti

Proper noun

Vatican City

2. A city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. Official name: Vatican City State.

Derived terms

• Vaticanian (a person from Vatican City)

Translations

State of the Vatican City

• Albanian: Vatikan m
• Arabic: اَلْفَاتِيكَان‎ m (al-fatikān)
• Armenian: Վատիկան (hy) (Vatikan)
• Azerbaijani: Vatikan (az)
• Bashkir: Ватикан (Vatikan)
• Bavarian: Vatikanstod
• Belarusian: Ватыка́н m (Vatykán)
• Bengali: ভ্যাটিকান সিটি (bn) (bbhaṭikan śiṭi), ভ্যাটিকান (bn) (bbhaṭikan)
• Breton: ar Vatikan
• Bulgarian: Ватика́на (bg) f (Vatikána)
• Burmese: ဗာတီကန်စီးတီး (batikanci:ti:), ဗာတီကန် (batikan)
• Catalan: Ciutat del Vaticà (ca) f, el Vaticà (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏪᏗᎧᏂ ᎦᏚᎲ (wedikani gaduhv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 梵蒂岡 (zh), 梵蒂冈 (zh) m (Fàndìgāng)

• Czech: Vatikán (cs) m
• Danish: Vatikanstaten (da), Vatikanet
• Dhivehi: ވެޓިކަން ސިޓީ‎ (dv) (veṭikan̊ siṭī), ވެޓިކަން‎ (veṭikan̊)
• Dutch: Vaticaanstad (nl) f, het Vaticaan (nl) n
• Esperanto: Vatikano (eo)
• Estonian: Vatikan (et)
• Farefare: Vatikan-gãn
• Faroese: Vatikanið n
• Finnish: Vatikaani (fi), Vatikaanivaltio (fi)
• French: Vatican (fr) m, Cité du Vatican (fr) f
• Galician: O Vaticano m, Cidade do Vaticano (gl)
• Georgian: ვატიკანი (vaṭiḳani)
• German: Vatikanstadt (de) f, Vatikan (de) m

  Rhine Franconian: Wadigaan (Palatine)

• Greek: Βατικανό (el) n (Vatikanó)
• Hebrew: קִרְײַת הָװַתִיקָן‎ (kiryat ha-vatikan), הָװַתִיקָן / הָוָתִיקָן‎ (ha-vatikan)
• Hindi: वेटिकन सिटी (veṭikan siṭī), वेटिकन (veṭikan)
• Hungarian: Vatikán (hu), Vatikánváros (hu)
• Icelandic: Vatíkanborg f, Vatíkanið (is) n, Páfagarður m
• Ido: Vatikano (io)
• Indonesian: Vatikan (id)
• Interlingua: Vaticano
• Irish: Cathair na Vatacáine f
• Italian: Città del Vaticano (it) f
• Japanese: バチカン (ja) (Bachikan), 法王庁 (ほうおうちょう, Hōōchō)
• Kashubian: Watikan
• Kazakh: Ватикан (Vatikan)
• Khmer: បុរីវ៉ាទីកង់ (km) (borəy vaatiikɑng), វ៉ាទីកង់ (vaatiikɑng)
• Korean: 바티칸 시국 (Batikan siguk), 바티칸 (ko) (Batikan)
• Kyrgyz: Ватикан (Vatikan)
• Lao: ວາຕິກັນ (wā ti kan)
• Latin: Civitas Vaticana f
• Latvian: Vatikāns (lv) m
• Limburgish: Vatikaanstad (li)

• Lithuanian: Vatikanas (lt) m
• Lombard: Cità del Vatican
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Vatikaanstad f

  German Low German: Vatikaan m

• Luxembourgish: Vatikanstad
• Macedonian: Ва́тикан (mk) m (Vátikan)
• Malay: Kota Vatikan, Vatikan
• Maltese: Vatikan, il-Belt tal-Vatikan
• Manx: Ard-Valley yn Phaab m
• Mongolian: Ватикан (Vatikan)
• Navajo: Bádikin Sídii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Vatikanstaten (no) n, Vatikanet n

  Nynorsk: Vatikanstaten (nn) n, Vatikanet n

• Persian: واتیکان‎ (fa) (vâtikân)
• Piedmontese: Sità dël Vatican
• Polish: Watykan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Vaticano (pt)
• Romanian: Vatican (ro) n, (sometimes) Sfântul Scaun (ro) n, Statul Cetății Vaticanului n
• Romansch: Citad dal Vatican f
• Russian: Ватика́н (ru) m (Vatikán)
• Rusyn: Ватікан (Vatikan)
• Scots: Vatican Ceety
• Scottish Gaelic: Cathair na Bhatacain
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ва̏тика̄н m, Све̑та̄ Сто̀лица f

  Latin: Vȁtikān (sh) m, Svȇtā Stòlica f

• Sicilian: Cità dû Vaticanu f
• Silesian: Watykůn n
• Slovak: Vatikán (sk) m
• Slovene: Vatikan (sl) m, Sveti sedež (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Vatikańske město

  Upper Sorbian: Vatikanske město

• Spanish: el Vaticano, Ciudad del Vaticano (es)
• Swedish: Vatikanstaten (sv), Vatikanen (sv)
• Tagalog: Lungsod Batikano, Batikano
• Tajik: Вотикон (tg) (Votikon)
• Thai: วาติกัน (waa-dtì-gan), นครวาติกัน (ná-kɔɔn waa-dtì-gan)
• Turkish: Vatikan (tr)
• Turkmen: Watikan
• Ukrainian: Ватика́н (uk) m (Vatykán)
• Urdu: ویٹیکن سٹی‎ (vēṭikan siṭī), ویٹیکن‎ (vēṭikan)
• Uzbek: Vatikan (uz)
• Vietnamese: Thành Va-ti-căng, Va-ti-căng, Thành Quốc Vatican, Thành Vatican
• Welsh: Dinas y Fatican f
• Yiddish: וואַטיקאַן‎ (vatikan)

See also

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