palatine

1. 1.

   any of various important officials in ancient Rome

   BroaderRoman
2. 2.

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

   Synonymspalsgrave

   BroaderLord

   Middle Ages

3. 3.

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

   Broaderhill

   Part ofSeven Hills of Rome
4. 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

   Synonymspalatine boneos palatinum

   Broaderbone

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.