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Palatine hill: see Rome before Augustus and Roman Empire under Rome .

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

palatine (of a count or county) possessing royal privileges XV; sb. lord having sovereign power over a province or dependency of an empire or realm XVI. — F. palatin(e) — L. palātīnus belonging to the palātium PALACE, sb. officer of the Roman imperial palace, chamberlain; hence applied in the Middle Ages to great feudatories exercising royal privileges.
Hence palatinate (-ATE1) territory of a count palatine, county palatine. XVI.

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pal·a·tine¹ / ˈpaləˌtīn/ • adj. chiefly hist. (of an official or feudal lord) having local authority that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign. ∎ (of a territory) subject to this authority. pal·a·tine² chiefly Anat. • adj. of or relating to the palate or esp. the palatine bone. • n. (also palatine bone) each of two bones within the skull forming parts of the eye socket, the nasal cavity, and the hard palate.

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