Editing Palatine Hill (section)

== Etymology ==

According to [[Livy]]<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0026&layout=&loc=1.5 Livy 1.5.1].</ref> (59 BC &ndash; AD 17) the Palatine hill got its name from the [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]]n settlers from [[Pallantium]], named from its founder [[Pallas of Arcadia|Pallas, son of Lycaon]]. More likely, it is derived from the noun ''palātum'' "palate"; [[Ennius]] uses it once for the "heaven", and it may be connected with the [[Etruscan language|Etruscan]] word for sky, ''falad''.<ref>Ernout and Meillet, ''Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine'', s.v. ''palātum''.</ref>

The name of the hill is the [[etymology|etymological]] origin of the word ''[[palace]]'' and its cognates in other languages ([[Greek language|Greek]]: ''παλάτιον'', {{langx|it|palazzo}}, {{langx|fr|palais}}, [[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''palacio'', [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]: ''palácio'', {{langx|de|Pfalz}} and ''Palast'', {{langx|cs|palác}}, {{langx|hr|palača}}, etc.).<ref name="OED-palace">"Palace". From the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]''</ref> 

The Palatine Hill is also the [[etymology|etymological]] origin (via the Latin adjective ''{{linktext|palatinus}}'') of "[[palatine]]", a 16th-century English adjective that originally signified something pertaining to the Caesar's palace, or someone who is invested with the king's authority. Later its use shifted to a reference to the [[German Palatinate]].<ref name="OED">"Palatine". From the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]''</ref><!--(login required url:) http://dictionary.oed.com.dax.lib.unf.edu/cgi/entry/50169581?query_type=word&queryword=palatine--> The office of the German [[count palatine]] (''Pfalzgraf'') had its origins in the ''comes palatinus'', an earlier office in [[Merovingian]] and [[Carolingian]] times.<ref name=keller-medieval-france-ency>{{cite book|last=Stowe |first=George B. |title=Palatinates |editor-last1=Kibler |editor-first1=William |editor-last2=Zinn |editor-first2=Grover A. |work=Medieval France: An Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XkQrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA576 |publisher=Garland |year=1995 |page=576 |isbn=9780824044442}}</ref>

Another modern English word, "{{linktext|paladin}}", came into usage to refer to any distinguished knight (especially one of the [[Paladin|Twelve Peers of Charlemagne]]) under Charlemagne in late renditions of the [[Matter of France]].{{Efn|This word came into use after an obsolete English "palasin" (from OF ''palaisin'') came into disuse.}}<ref>"Paladin". From the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]''</ref><!--(login required url:) http://dictionary.oed.com.dax.lib.unf.edu/cgi/entry/50169459?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=paladin Retrieved November 19, 2008.-->