Palatinate
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- proper noun
- /ˈpælətɪnɪt/
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Palatinado
- That month, Pope Gregory XV took stock of the religious wars in Bohemia, Alsace, and the Palatinate and decided that it was too late to calm the situation with armed force.
- Palatinate state
- state of Rhineland-Palatinate
Examples
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And best of all, he had two camels which Dohna had brought with him all the way across France as a present from Johan Casimir of the Palatinate to the King of Navarre.
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Not accidentally, both men have been prime ministers of the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, a region with close historical ties to France.
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Mennonite refugees who came to Holland from the German Palatinate area built the original mills in this area to saw timber.
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The ruling was made on October 29 by the Higher Administrative Court for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Koblenz.
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Although he swiftly took root in the Great Plains (as he liked to call them), he came from a different part of the United States, eastern Pennsylvania, where his father, an immigrant from the Palatinate, had been a coal miner.
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It was Louis XIV whose marshals decided to protect their right flank as they moved north into Holland by devastating the Rheinish Palatinate so that no army could cross it and survive.
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Many families from the German Palatinate migrated to America during the 18th century seeking better opportunities.
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The Palatinate was known for its vineyards and picturesque landscapes in southwestern Germany.
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In the 17th century, the Palatinate played a significant role in the Thirty Years' War.
Synonyms
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A historic region in southwest Germany known for castles and wine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Palatinate = palatine (opaque) = palatin + ate
The word appears to be formed from the rare base 'palatine' plus '-ate', but the historical territorial sense is lexicalized and not readily predictable for most learners.
Etymology
Palatinate comes from the Latin word palatium, meaning 'palace'. It originally named land ruled by a palace official called a 'count palatine', so a Palatinate is a territory linked to the ruler's palace and that is why it became the name of the historical region in southwestern Germany.