palatium

From Palātium (“Palatine Hill”), one of the seven hills of Rome, where aristocrats built large homes,

Either from:

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈlaː.ti.um/, [päˈɫ̪äːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈlat.t͡si.um/, [päˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]

palātium n (genitive palātiī or palātī); second declension

1. a palace; large residence

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “palatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palatium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• palatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “palatium”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “palatium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• palatium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “palatium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly