Palatine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A soldier of the palace guard of the Roman emperors, formed in the time of Diocletian.
  • n. A soldier of a major division of the Roman army formed in the time of Constantine I.
  • n. Used as a title for various administrative officials of the late Roman and Byzantine empires.
  • n. A feudal lord exercising sovereign power over his lands. Also called palsgrave.
  • adj. Belonging to or fit for a palace.
  • adj. Of or relating to a palatine or palatinate.
  • adj. Of or relating to the palate: the palatine tonsils.
  • adj. Of or relating to either of two bones that make up the hard palate.
  • n. Either of the two bones that make up the hard palate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or relating to the palate
  • adj. Of or relating to a palatine bone.
  • n. One of a pair of bones behind the palate.
  • adj. Of or relating to the Palatine Hill in Rome.
  • adj. Of or relating to powers normally possessed by a sovereign but exercised by a lesser noble, or by a nominee of a sovereign.
  • adj. Of or relating to a palace, particularly for the Eastern and Western Roman emperors.
  • adj. Of or relating to a palatine or a palatinate, especially the Rhineland Palatinate.
  • n. A Roman soldier.
  • n. A Roman or Byzantine official.
  • n. A feudal lord, (a Pfalzgraf or Count-palatine), or a bishop possessing palatine powers.
  • n. A resident of a palatinate.
  • n. The highest dignitary in the Kingdom of Hungary after the king.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the Palatinate.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a Palatine{1}.
  • n. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th count.
  • n. The Palatine hill in Rome.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the palate; palatal.
  • n. A palatine bone.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to a palace: applied originally to persons holding office or employment in a royal palace.
  • Possessing royal privileges: as, a count palatine.
  • n. Originally, one who was attached to the palace of the Roman emperor.
  • n. A fur tippet.
  • Of or pertaining to the palate; palatal: as, the palatine bones; palatine teeth of fishes.
  • Inferior, same as ascending palatine.
  • Descending, a branch of the internal maxillary, which passes through the posterior palatine canal to supply the mucous membrane, glands, and gum of the hard palate
  • Of pharyngeal, a branch supplying the soft palate, sometimes of considerable size, when the ascending palatine is small
  • Superior, same as descending palatine.
  • Superior, one of several branches of the pterygoid plexus of the internal maxillary vein.
  • n. One of the palatal bones; a palatal.
  • Pertaining to the village of Pallet, near Nantes, the birthplace of Abelard. Thus, the school of Abelard is sometimes referred to as the Palatine school.
  • n. [capitalized] A native of the Palatinate.
  • n. A trade-name applied to several coal-tar coloring matters.
  • In phonology, same as palatal, a., 2.
  • n. Specifically, in the teleost fishes, the anterior of the chain of bones which forms the palatoquadrate arch.
  • n. In phonology, same as palatal, n., 2.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of or relating to a palace
  • n. (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
  • n. 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
  • n. the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces
  • adj. of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives
  • n. any of various important officials in ancient Rome
  • adj. relating to or lying near the palate
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