Found 2 items, similar to palatine.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: palatine palatine adj 1: relating to or lying near the palate; “palatal index”; “the palatine tonsils” [syn: palatal] 2: of or relating to a count palatine and his royal prerogatives 3: of or relating to a palace palatine n 1: any of various important officials in ancient Rome 2: (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands [syn: palsgrave] 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 [syn: palatine bone, os palatinum]
English → English (gcide) Definition: palatine palatine \pal"a*tine\, a. [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr. palatium. See Palace, and cf. Paladin.] 1. Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the Palatinate. [PJC] 3. Of or pertaining to a Palatine[1]. [PJC] Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County. Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the C[ae]sars. See also Palatine Hill in the vocabulary, and Palace. [1913 Webster] palatine \pal"a*tine\, a. [From Palate.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the palate; palatal. [1913 Webster] Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries. [1913 Webster]