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1. Relating to or lying near the palate
   "the palatine tonsils";
   - palatal
    
2. Of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives
    
3. Of or relating to a palace

1. Any of various important officials in ancient Rome
    
2. (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
   - palsgrave
    
3. 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
   - palatine bone, os palatinum

1. The most important of the Seven Hills of Rome; supposedly the location of the first settlement and the site of many imperial palaces
   - Palatine Hill

Derived forms: palatines, Palatines

Type of: bone, hill, Lord, noble, nobleman, os[2], Roman

Part of: Seven Hills of Rome

Encyclopedia: Palatine, Lake Zurich & Wauconda Railroad