palatine adj

1 relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils" [syn: palatal]

2 of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives

3 of or relating to a palace

1 any of various important officials in ancient Rome

2 (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands [syn: palsgrave]

3 the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces

4 either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits [syn: palatine bone, os palatinum]

see palatine

English

Etymology

From Palatinus < palus or from .

Proper noun

1. One of the seven hills of Rome; the site of the earliest settlement.

Derived terms

• palace
• palatium

Translations

Palatine may refer to:

In titles:

• Palatine (Kingdom of Hungary), vice-regent of Hungary
• Count palatine, vice-regal office-bearers in Germany
  • Voivode or Count palatine, a governor in Poland
• The holder of a county palatine, northern counties/duchies in England

In geography:

• Palatine, Illinois, a town near Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
• Palatine, New York, a town in central New York, U.S.
• Palatine, County Carlow, a hamlet in County Carlow, Ireland

In other uses:

• Palatine bone, a bone in the palate
• German Palatines, emigrants from the Palatinate region of Germany around 1710
• Palatine, the Subject Centre for Dance, Drama and Music of the UK Higher Education Academy

See also

• Palatine Hill, center most of the seven hills of Rome
• Palatine Bridge, New York, a village in central New York settled by emigrant Germans
• Paladin (disambiguation)
• Palatinus, certain high officials of the papal court
• Palatinate