palatine

1. 1.

   relating to or lying near the palate

   “palatal index”

   “the palatine tonsils”

   Synonymspalatal
2. 2.

   of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives
3. 3.

   of or relating to a palace

Other forms of palatine

plural

palatines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about palatine

What does palatine mean?

palatine means "any of various important officials in ancient Rome". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in palatine?

palatine has 3 syllables: pal-a-tine. The stress falls on "pal". In IPA it is /ˈpæləˌtaɪn/.

What is another word for palatine?

Close synonyms include palsgrave, palatine bone, os palatinum, palatal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is palatine a common word?

palatine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with palatine?

8 words rhyme with palatine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.