PALATINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Palatine mean? 

• PALATINE (noun)
  The noun PALATINE has 4 senses:

1. any of various important officials in ancient Rome

2. (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands

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

  Familiarity information: PALATINE used as a noun is uncommon.

• PALATINE (adjective)
  The adjective PALATINE has 3 senses:

1. relating to or lying near the palate

2. of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives

3. of or relating to a palace

  Familiarity information: PALATINE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALATINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various important officials in ancient Rome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("palatine" is a kind of...):

Roman (an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

palatine; palsgrave

Hypernyms ("palatine" is a kind of...):

Lord; noble; nobleman (a titled peer of the realm)

Domain category:

Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)

Derivation:

palatine (of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

Holonyms ("Palatine" is a part of...):

Seven Hills of Rome (the hills on which the ancient city of Rome was built)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

os palatinum; palatine; palatine bone

Hypernyms ("palatine" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Derivation:

palatine (relating to or lying near the palate)

• PALATINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or lying near the palate

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

palatal; palatine

Context example:

the palatine tonsils

Pertainym:

palate (the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities)

Derivation:

palatine (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

palatine ((Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands)

Derivation:

palatine ((Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of or relating to a palace

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

palace (official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign))

 Context examples 

A groove between the base of the tongue and the palatine tonsil.

(Glossopharyngeal Sulcus, NCI Thesaurus)

Seven bones contribute to the structure of the orbit: the frontal, maxillary, zygomatic, sphenoid, lacrimal, ethmoid, and palatine bones.

(Murine Orbit, NCI Thesaurus)