Vatican City

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Etymology

A calque of Italian Città del Vaticano, from Latin Cīvitās Vāticāna (“Vatican City”), referring to the Vatican hill, whose further etymology is unknown.

Pronunciation

(UK, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvæ.tɪ.kən ˈsɪt.i/
Audio (US): (file)
Audio (UK): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪti

Proper noun

Vatican City or the Vatican City

A city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. Official name: Vatican City State.
Synonym: Vatican
- 1929 February 12, Arnaldo Cortesi, “Pope’s Sovereignty Is Restored by Italo-Vatican Compact”, in The New York Times‎^[1], volume LXXVIII, number 25,952, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 August 2025, page 2, column 2:
  “The new State, which will be known as the Vatican City, has a tiny territory,” the Pope [Pius XI] said, “but it is the greatest in the world because it contains Bernig’s^[sic] colonnades, Michelangelo’s dome, treasures of art in the Vatican library, museums and galleries, and because, above all, it contains the tomb of the Prince of the Apostles. No more precious territory exists.”
- 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.
- 2024 May 6, Dana Rubinstein, William K. Rashbaum, “Mayor [Eric] Adams to Meet With Pope Francis in Rome”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 May 2024:
  The advisory mentions “travel to the Vatican City,” but did not specify if he would meet with the pope.

Derived terms

Vaticanian (a person from Vatican City)

Translations

state — see also Vatican

Afrikaans: Vatikaanstad, Vatikaan
Albanian: Vatikan m, Vatikani (sq) m (definite)
Amharic: ቫቲካን (vatikan), ቫቲካን ከተማ (vatikan kätäma)
Arabic: الْفَاتِيكَان f (al-fatikān)
Armenian: Վատիկան (hy) (Vatikan)
Asturian: Ciudá del Vaticanu (ast)
Azerbaijani: Vatikan (az)
Bashkir: Ватикан (Vatikan)
Bavarian: Vatikanstod
Belarusian: Ватыка́н m (Vatykán)
Bengali: ভ্যাটিকান সিটি (bn) (bhêṭikan śiṭi), ভ্যাটিকান (bn) (bhêṭikan)
Breton: ar Vatikan
Bulgarian: Ватика́на (bg) f (Vatikána)
Burmese: ဗာတီကန်စီးတီး (batikanci:ti:), ဗာတီကန် (batikan)
Carpathian Rusyn: Ватікан m (Vatikan)
Catalan: Ciutat del Vaticà (ca) f, el Vaticà (ca) m
Cherokee: ᏪᏗᎧᏂ ᎦᏚᎲ (wedikani gaduhv)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 梵蒂岡 / 梵蒂冈 (zh) (Fàndìgāng), 梵蒂岡城國 / 梵蒂冈城国 (Fàndìgāng chéngguó), 梵蒂岡城 / 梵蒂冈城 (zh) (Fàndìgāng chéng)
Czech: Vatikán (cs) m
Danish: Vatikanstaten (da) c, Vatikanet n
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: קִרְיַת הָוָתִיקָן (kiryát ha-vatikán), הָוָתִיקָן f (ha-vatikán)
Hindi: वेटिकन सिटी m (veṭikan siṭī), वेटिकन m (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), バチカン市国 (ja) (バチカンしこく, Bachikan Shikoku), 法王庁 (ja) (ほうおうちょう, Hōōchō)
Kashubian: Watikan
Kazakh: Ватикан (kk) (Vatikan)
Khmer: បុរីវ៉ាទីកង់ (km) (borəy vaatiikɑng), វ៉ាទីកង់ (vaatiikɑng)
Korean: 바티칸 (ko) (Batikan), 바티칸 시국 (Batikan siguk), 바띠까노 (ko) (Battikkano) (North Korea)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Vatîkan (ku)
Kyrgyz: Ватикан (ky) (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 (ms), Vatikan (ms)
Maltese: Vatikan, il-Belt tal-Vatikan
Manx: Ard-Valley yn Phaab m
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Ватикан (Vatikan)
Navajo: Bádikin Sídii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Vatikanstaten (no) n, Vatikanet n

Nynorsk: Vatikanstaten (nn) n, Vatikanet n
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: Ватиканъ m (Vatikanŭ)
Pashto: واتيکان m (wātikān)
Persian: واتیکان (fa) (vâtikân)
Piedmontese: Sità dël Vatican
Polish: Watykan (pl) m
Portuguese: Cidade do Vaticano (pt) f, Vaticano (pt) m
Romagnol: Vatichën
Romanian: Vatican (ro) n, (sometimes) Sfântul Scaun (ro) n, Statul Cetății Vaticanului n
Romansch: Citad dal Vatican f
Russian: Ватика́н (ru) m (Vatikán)
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 n

Upper Sorbian: Vatikanske město n
Spanish: el Vaticano (es) m, Ciudad del Vaticano (es)
Swahili: Vatikani
Swedish: Vatikanstaten (sv) n, Vatikanen (sv) n
Tagalog: Lungsod Batikano, Batikano
Tajik: Вотикон (tg) (Votikon)
Tatar: Ватикан (Watiqan)
Thai: วาติกัน (waa-dtì-gan), นครรัฐวาติกัน (th) (ná-kɔɔn waa-dtì-gan)
Tibetan: ཝ་ཏི་ཀན (wa ti kan), ཝ་ཏི་ཀན་གྲོང་ཁྱོར (wa ti kan grong khyor)
Turkish: Vatikan (tr)
Turkmen: Watikan
Ukrainian: Ватика́н (uk) m (Vatykán)
Urdu: ویٹیکن سٹی m (vēṭikan siṭī), ویٹیکن m (vēṭikan)
Uyghur: ۋاتىكان (watikan), ۋاتىكان شەھىرى (watikan shehiri)
Uzbek: Vatikan (uz), Vatikan shahri
Vietnamese: Thành Va-ti-căng, Va-ti-căng, Thành Quốc Vatican, Thành Vatican
Welsh: Dinas y Fatican f
Yiddish: וואַטיקאַן (vatikan)