What does "palatine" mean?
Palatine: One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.
Additional senses
- 2.The Palatine hill in Rome.
- 3.Of or pertaining to the palate. Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.
- 4., (Anat.) A palatine bone.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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