Palatium

See also: palatium

Latin

Etymology

Either from:

Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌀𐌃 (falad, “sky”), the same source as Palēs (“Pales, the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestock”);
pālus (“stake; enclosure”).

Proper noun

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

One of the seven hills of Rome.

Declension

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

Case	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

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

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