Definition of Palatine

1. Noun. Any of various important officials in ancient Rome.

Generic synonyms: Roman

2. Adjective. Relating to or lying near the palate. "The palatine tonsils"
Exact synonyms: Palatal
Partainyms: Palate, Palate
Derivative terms: Palate

3. Noun. (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands.
Exact synonyms: Palsgrave
Generic synonyms: Lord, Noble, Nobleman
Category relationships: Dark Ages, Middle Ages

4. Adjective. Of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives.

5. Noun. The most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces.
Group relationships: Seven Hills Of Rome
Generic synonyms: Hill

6. Adjective. Of or relating to a palace.
Partainyms: Palace

7. Noun. 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.
Exact synonyms: Os Palatinum, Palatine Bone
Generic synonyms: Bone, Os

Definition of Palatine

1. a. Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.

2. n. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.

3. a. Of or pertaining to the palate.

4. n. A palatine bone.

Definition of Palatine

1. Proper noun. One of the seven hills of Rome; the site of the earliest settlement. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the Palatine Hill in Rome. ¹

3. Adjective. Of or relating to powers normally possessed by a sovereign but exercised by a lesser noble, or by a nominee of a sovereign. ¹

4. Adjective. Of or relating to a palace, particularly for the Eastern and Western Roman emperors. ¹

5. Adjective. Of or relating to a palatine or a palatinate, especially the Rhineland Palatinate. ¹

6. Noun. A Roman soldier. ¹

7. Noun. A Roman or Byzantine official. ¹

8. Noun. A feudal lord, (a ''Pfalzgraf'' or Count-palatine), or a bishop possessing palatine powers. ¹

9. Noun. The highest dignitary in the Kingdom of Hungary after the king. ¹

10. Adjective. Of or relating to the palate ¹

11. Adjective. Of or relating to a palatine bone. ¹

12. Noun. (anatomy) One of a pair of bones behind the palate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Palatine

1. a high officer of an empire [n -S]

Medical Definition of Palatine

1. 1. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count. 2. The Palatine hill in Rome. Of or pertaining to the palate. Palatine bones, a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries. Origin: From Palate. A palatine bone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palatine

palate
palate expander
palate hook
palate myograph
palated
palates
palatial
palatially
palatialness
palatialnesses
palatic
palatics
palatiform
palatinase
palatinates
palatine (current term)
palatine aponeurosis
palatine artery
palatine bone
palatine bones
palatine glands
palatine groove
palatine papilla
palatine process
palatine raphe
palatine ridge
palatine spines
palatine surface of horizontal plate of palatine bone
palatine tonsil
palatine tonsils

Literary usage of Palatine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The descending or palatine branches are distributed to the roof of the ... They are almost a direct continuation of the spheno-palatine branches of the ..."

2. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"It gains entrance to the nasal cavity through the spheno-palatine foramen, ... The septal branch of this vessel accompanies the naso-palatine nerve, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"This use of the word palatine was adopted by the Prankish kings of the ... Other counts palatine were employed on military and administrative work, ..."

4. The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning the ...by Edward Coke by Edward Coke (1671)
"Of the County palatine of ... palatine bp з* Н.б. ... palatine remaining in »fa Wolf étala', ..."

5. The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome: A Companion Book for Students and by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1897)
"... within the furrow, and Dionysius states that Vesta's temple was outside it. The furrow followed the foot of the cliffs or slopes of the palatine, ..."

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