palatine (redirected from Palatine bones)

Palatine, hill, Rome

Palatine, hill: see Rome before Augustus and Roman Empire under Rome.

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Palatine, village, United States

Palatine (păl`ətīn), village (1990 pop. 39,253), Cook co., NE Ill.; inc. 1869. Primarily residential, the growing village manufactures a variety of products, such as machine tools and industrial adhesives. William Rainey Harper College is in Palatine.

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palatine¹

1. (of an individual) possessing royal prerogatives in a territory

2. of, belonging to, characteristic of, or relating to a count palatine, county palatine, palatinate, or palatine

3. Feudal history the lord of a palatinate

4. any of various important officials at the late Roman, Merovingian, or Carolingian courts

5. (in Colonial America) any of the proprietors of a palatine colony, such as Carolina

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palatine²

1. of or relating to the palate

2. either of two bones forming the hard palate

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Palatine

one of the Seven Hills of Rome: traditionally the site of the first settlement of Rome