English Explanatory Dictionary

Vatican

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The official residence of the Pope within Vatican City, the Vatican or Apostolic Palace.
  2. The papal government; the papacy, the Holy See.
  3. 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.
adj
  1. Relating to the Vatican City state.

Pronunciation

/ˈvæ.tɪ.kən/ vǎ′tĭ-kən vǎt′ĭ-kən en-us-Vatican.ogg

Word forms

Vatican the Vatican

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Vātī̆cānus (“Vatican Hill”), further etymology unknown. The connection to vāticinārī (“to prophesy, oracle”) is folk-etymological.

Synonyms

Vatican City

Derived words

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

Translations

Afrikaans: Vatikaanstad Afrikaans: Vatikaan Albanian: Vatikan Amharic: ቫቲካን Arabic: الْفَاتِيكَان Armenian: Վատիկան Aromanian: Vãtican Azerbaijani: Vatikan Belarusian: Ватыка́н Bengali: ভ্যাটিকান Bulgarian: Ватика́на Burmese: ဗာတီကန် Catalan: Vaticà Cherokee: ᏪᏗᎧᏂ Cherokee: ᏩᏘᎧᏂ Chinese Mandarin: 梵蒂岡 /梵蒂冈 Corsican: Vaticanu Czech: Vatikán Danish: Vatikanet Danish: Vatikanstaten Dhivehi: ވެޓިކަން Dutch: Vaticaan Esperanto: Vatikano Estonian: Vatikan Farefare: Vatikan Finnish: Vatikaani French: Vatican Galician: Vaticano Georgian: ვატიკანი German: Vatikan Greek: Βατικανό Gujarati: વેટિકન Hebrew: הוַותִיקָן Hindi: वेटिकन Hungarian: Vatikán Indonesian: Vatikan Irish: An Vatacáin Italian: Vaticano Japanese: バチカン Kazakh: Ватикан Khmer: វ៉ាទីកង់ Korean: 바티칸 Korean: 바띠까노 Kyrgyz: Ватикан
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