palatine

Meanings

Adjective

• Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
• Pertaining to the Elector Palatine or the German Palatinate or its people.
• Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor.
• Synonym of palatial.
• Of or relating to the palate or to a palatine bone.

Noun

• A feudal lord () or a bishop possessing palatine powers.
• A palace official, especially in an imperial palace.
• A native or inhabitant of the Palatinate.
• The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace.
• A fur cape or stole for women which covers the neck and shoulders.

Origin

• From late Middle English, from Middle French palatin, from Medieval Latin palātīnus ("relating to the palace"), from palātium + -īnus. paladin.
• Borrowing from French palatine, .
• Borrowing from French palatin, from New Latin palātīnus, from palātum + -īnus; equivalent to palate + -ine.