# palatium
## Latin
### Etymology

From Palātium (“Palatine Hill”), one of the seven hills of Rome, where aristocrats built large homes; see there for more.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /paˈlaː.ti.um/, [päˈɫ̪äːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /paˈlat.t͡si.um/, [päˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]

### Noun

palātium n (genitive palātiī or palātī); second declension
* a palace; large residence

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | palātium | palātia |
| Genitive | palātiī palātī$^1$ | palātiōrum |
| Dative | palātiō | palātiīs |
| Accusative | palātium | palātia |
| Ablative | palātiō | palātiīs |
| Vocative | palātium | palātia |
$^1$Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

#### Descendants

* Catalan: palau
* Friulian: palaç
* Italian: palazzo (see there for further descendants)
* Occitan: palatz
* Old French: palais (see there for further descendants)
* Old Galician-Portuguese: paaço
** Galician: pazo, pacio, paço (reintegrationist)
*** → Spanish: pazo
** Portuguese: paço
* Old Spanish: palaço
* Piedmontese: palass
* Romansch: palaz, palazi, palast
* Sardinian: palatzu, palatu, palàtziu
* Sicilian: palazzu
* Venetian: pałaso, palaso, palaç
* Borrowings:
** into Romance:
*** → Asturian: palaciu
*** → Galician: palacio
*** → Old Spanish: palacio
**** Spanish: palacio
*** → Portuguese: palácio
** Other:
*** → Proto-Albanian: *paletja
**** Albanian: pëllas
*** → Ancient Greek: παλάτιον (palátion), παλάτιν (palátin)
**** Greek: παλάτι (paláti)
**** → Aramaic: פַּלָּטִין (palatin)
***** → Arabic: بلاط (balāṭ)
**** → Classical Syriac: ܦܠܛܝܢ (pālāṭīn)
**** → Georgian: პალატი (ṗalaṭi)
**** → Old Armenian: պալատն (palatn), պաղատն (pałatn), պալատ (palat), պաղատ (pałat)
***** Armenian: պալատ (palat)
**** → Romanian: palat
**** → Russian: пала́та (paláta)
*** → Old Norse: pallaz
**** Danish: palads
**** Norwegian Bokmål: palass
**** Norwegian Nynorsk: palass
**** Swedish: palats
***** → Finnish: palatsi
*** → Old High German: pfalinza
**** German: Pfalz
***** → English: Pfalz
*** → Serbo-Croatian: pàlača, pàlata
*** → Slovene: paláča
*** → Czech: palác

### References

* “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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) 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
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “palātum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 440