palatine

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Pal=a=tine

CIDE DICTIONARY

palatine, a. [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr. palatium. See Palace, and cf. Paladin.].

•  Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace;  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to the Palatinate.  [PJC]
•  Of or pertaining to a Palatine{1}.  [PJC]

Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County. -- Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the Cæsars. See also Palatine Hill in the vocabulary, and Palace.

palatine, n. 

•  One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.  [1913 Webster]
•  The Palatine hill in Rome.  [1913 Webster]

palatine, a. [From Palate.].

 Of or pertaining to the palate; palatal.  [1913 Webster]

Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.

palatine, n. 

 A palatine bone.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

palatine, adj. (also Palatine) hist.
1 (of an official or feudal lord) having local authority that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign (Count Palatine).
2 (of a territory) subject to this authority.

palatine, adj. & n.
--adj. of or connected with the palate.
--n. (in full palatine bone) each of two bones forming the hard palate.

Etymology

F palatin -ine (as PALATE)

ROGET THESAURUS

palatine

Master

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