Vatican

Vatican

See also: vatican

English

Etymology

From Latin Vātī̆cānus (“Vatican Hill”), from vāticinārī (“to prophesy, oracle”), from vātēs (“soothsayer, prophet”) +‎ cinor (“to sing”) (the latter is from canō), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- (“to be excited, inspired, possessed”). “Vatican”, a name dating back to the Roman Republic, would be the place from where prophecies would be issued. Cognate to English Odin, which is from the same Indo-European root (see there).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈvæ.tɪ.kən/

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Proper noun

the Vatican

1. The official residence of the Pope within Vatican City, the Vatican or Apostolic Palace.
2. (metonymically) The papal government; the papacy, the Holy See.
3. Vatican City, a city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy.
4. The Vatican Hill in Rome, where the palace and Vatican City are located.
   • 1856, The Art of Building in Ancient and Modern Times […], volume 1, page 75:

     He [Caligula] began to build a circus upon the Vatican.

5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Roman Catholicism.

Derived terms

• Vaticanal
• Vatican City
• Vaticanian
• Vaticanic
• Vatican II
• Vaticanism
• Vaticanist
• Vaticanologist
• Vaticanology
• Vatican roulette

 

Translations

state

Albanian: Vatikan m Arabic: الْفَاتِيكَان‎ f (al-fatikān), الْفَاتِيكَان‎ f (al-vatikān) Armenian: Վատիկան (hy) (Vatikan) Azerbaijani: Vatikan (az) Belarusian: Ватыка́н m (Vatykán) Bengali: ভ্যাটিকান (bn) (bhẏaṭikan) Bulgarian: Ватика́на (bg) f (Vatikána) Burmese: ဗာတီကန် (batikan) Catalan: Vaticà (ca) m Cherokee: ᏪᏗᎧᏂ (wedikani), ᏩᏘᎧᏂ (watikani) Chinese: Mandarin: 梵蒂岡／梵蒂冈 (zh) (Fàndìgāng) Czech: Vatikán (cs) m Danish: Vatikanet n (definite form), Vatikanstaten (da) c (post-1929 state) Dutch: Vaticaan (nl) n Dhivehi: ވެޓިކަން‎ (veṭikan̊) Esperanto: Vatikano (eo) Estonian: Vatikan (et) Farefare: Vatikan Finnish: Vatikaani (fi) French: Vatican (fr) m Galician: Vaticano m Georgian: ვატიკანი (vaṭiḳani) German: Vatikan (de) m Greek: Βατικανό (el) n (Vatikanó) Hebrew: הוַותִיקָן‎ f (vatikán) Hindi: वेटिकन (veṭikan) Hungarian: Vatikán (hu) Indonesian: Vatikan (id) Irish: An Vatacáin f Italian: Vaticano m Japanese: バチカン (ja) (Bachikan) Kazakh: Ватикан (Vatikan) Khmer: វ៉ាទីកង់ (vaatiikɑng) Korean: 바티칸 (ko) (Batikan), 바띠까노 (ko) (Battikkano) (North Korea) Kyrgyz: Ватикан (Vatikan) Lao: ວາ​ຕິ​ກັນ (wā ti kan), ວາຕິກັງ (wā ti kang) Latin: Vātī̆cānus m Latvian: Vatikāns (lv) m Lithuanian: Vatikanas (lt) m Macedonian: Ва́тикан (mk) m (Vátikan) Malay: Vatikan Maori: Watikana, Whatikana Mongolian: Cyrillic: Ватикан (Vatikan) Persian: واتیکان‎ (fa) (vâtikân) Polish: Watykan (pl) m Portuguese: Vaticano (pt) m Romanian: Vatican (ro) m or n Russian: Ватика́н (ru) m (Vatikán) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ва̏тика̄н m Roman: Vȁtikān (sh) m Sinhalese: වතිකානු (watikānu) Slovak: Vatikán (sk) m Slovene: Vatikan (sl) m Spanish: Vaticano (es) m Tagalog: Batikano Tajik: Вотикон (tg) (Votikon) Thai: วาติกัน (waa-dtì-gan) Turkish: Vatikan (tr) Turkmen: Watikan Ukrainian: Ватика́н (uk) m (Vatykán) Urdu: ویٹیکن‎ (veṭikan) Uzbek: Vatikan (uz) Vietnamese: Va-ti-căng Yiddish: וואַטיקאַן‎ m (vatikan)

Adjective

Vatican (not comparable)

1. Relating to the Vatican City state.

Translations

Relating to the Vatican City state

Catalan: vaticà Dutch: Vaticaans (nl) Farefare: vatikan French: vatican (fr) m Galician: vaticano German: vatikanisch (de) Irish: Vatacánach, na Vatacáine Italian: vaticano (it) Macedonian: ватика́нски (vatikánski) Norwegian: Bokmål: vatikansk Nynorsk: vatikansk Polish: watykański (pl) m Portuguese: vaticano (pt) Romanian: vatican Russian: ватика́нский (ru) (vatikánskij) Spanish: vaticano (es) Swahili: vatikani (sw) Swedish: vatikansk (sv) Tagalog: batikano

References

• Vatican at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Vacanti