[syn: palatal, palatine]
2. of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives;
3. of or relating to a palace;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
palatine \pal"a*tine\, a. [From Palate.] (Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the palate; palatal.
[1913 Webster]
Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in
the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between
the maxillaries.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Palatine \Pal"a*tine\ n. (Anat.)
A palatine bone.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
palatine \pal"a*tine\, a. [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr.
palatium. See Palace, and cf. Paladin.]
1. Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a
palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
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2. Of or pertaining to the Palatinate.
[PJC]
3. Of or pertaining to a Palatine[1].
[PJC]
Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and
County.
Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of
Rome, once occupied by the palace of the C[ae]sars. See
also Palatine Hill in the vocabulary, and Palace.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Palatine \Pal"a*tine\, n.
1. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his
domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th
Count.
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2. The Palatine hill in Rome.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
palatine
adj 1: relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index";
"the palatine tonsils" [syn: palatal, palatine]
2: of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives
3: of or relating to a palace
n 1: any of various important officials in ancient Rome
2: (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised
sovereign powers over his lands [syn: palatine,
palsgrave]
3: the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the
location of the first settlement and the site of many
imperial palaces
4: 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 [syn: palatine, palatine bone, os
palatinum]
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Palatine, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 65479
Housing Units (2000): 26223
Land area (2000): 12.973365 sq. miles (33.600860 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.133511 sq. miles (0.345792 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 13.106876 sq. miles (33.946652 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57225
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 42.116885 N, 88.040613 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60067 60074
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Palatine, IL
Palatine