Palatium

See also: palatium

Latin

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Either from:

• Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀𐌃 (falad, “sky”), the same source as Palēs (“Pales, the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestock”);
• palātum (“roof of the mouth; dome, vault”), itself perhaps related to the Etruscan term above;
• pālus (“stake; enclosure”).

Proper noun

Palātium n sg (genitive Palātiī or Palātī); second declension

1. One of the seven hills of Rome.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Palātium
genitive	Palātiī Palātī1
dative	Palātiō
accusative	Palātium
ablative	Palātiō
vocative	Palātium
locative	Palātiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Palātīnus
• palātium
• Palātua

References

• “Palatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Palatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.