palace

See also:Palace,palące,andpałace

English

Palatine Hill,Domus Augustana (palace of Caesar Augustus)

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishpaleys,fromOld Frenchpalais,which comes fromLatinpalātium,fromPalātium,in reference to thePalatine(Palatine Hill), one of the seven hills of Rome, where the aristocracy of the RomanRepublic—and later, Roman emperors—built large, splendid residences.The name is ultimately either fromEtruscan,the same source asPales(“Pales,the Italic goddess of shepherds, flocks and livestock”),or Latinpalus(“stake; enclosure”).DoubletofpalazzoandPfalz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈpælɪs/
• (General Australianorweak vowel merger)IPA^(key):/ˈpæləs/

• Audio(US):

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• Hyphenation:pal‧ace
• Rhymes:-ælɪs

Noun

palace(pluralpalaces)

2. Officialresidenceof ahead of stateor otherdignitary,especially in amonarchicalorimperialgovernmental system.
3. A large andlavishlyornateresidence.
   • 1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon],chapter XXV, inFrancesca Carrara.[…],volume I, London:Richard Bentley,[…],(successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page293:

     On Madame de Mercœur's arrival at thepalaceshe found the carriage and guards in waiting, the Queen having decided that she would do her niece the honour of going to meet her.

   • 1963,Margery Allingham,chapter 1, inThe China Governess: A Mystery,London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:

     The original family who had begun to build apalaceto rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway,[…].

4. A large, ornatepublicbuilding used for entertainment or exhibitions.

Derived terms

• coffee palace
• Crystal Palace
• gin palace
• golden palace monkey
• ice palace
• Lambeth Palace
• lobster palace
• mayor of the palace
• memory palace
• mind palace
• movie palace
• palace car
• palace coup
• palace intrigue
• palace of culture
• palace politics
• palace-politics
• palace revolution
• palatial
• people's palace
• picture palace
• presidential palace
• puck palace
• Puzzle Palace

Translations

large, lavish residence

• Afrikaans:paleis
• Akkadian:ēkallum
• Albanian:pëllas(sq)m
• Amharic:ቤተ መንግሥት(betä mängəśt)
• Arabic:قَصْر(ar)m(qaṣr),بَلَاطm(balāṭ)

  Hijazi Arabic:قَصُرm(gaṣur)

• Armenian:պալատ(hy)(palat),դղյակ(hy)(dġyak)
• Asturian:palaciu(ast)m
• Azerbaijani:saray(az),qəsr(az)
• Basque:jauregi
• Belarusian:пала́цm(palác),дварэ́цm(dvaréc)
• Bengali:প্রাসাদ(bn)(praśad),মহল(bn)(mohol)
• Bikol Central:palasyo
• Bulgarian:дворе́ц(bg)m(dvoréc),пала́т(bg)m(palát),черто́г(bg)m(čertóg)(dated)
• Burmese:နန်း(my)(nan:),နန်းတော်(my)(nan:tau)
• Catalan:palau(ca)m
• Cebuano:palasyo
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Cung điện／Cung điện(gung¹din⁶),Cung／Cung(gung¹)

  Hokkien:Cung điện／Cung điện(zh-min-nan)(kiong-tiān)

  Mandarin:Cung điện／Cung điện(zh)(gōngdiàn),Cung／Cung(zh)(gōng)

• Czech:palác(cs)m
• Danish:paladsn
• Dutch:paleis(nl)n
• Dzongkha:ཕོ་བྲང(pho brang)
• Egyptian:(pr-nswt)
• Esperanto:palaco
• Estonian:palee
• Extremaduran:palaciu
• Faroese:høghøllf,glæstriborgf
• Finnish:palatsi(fi)
• French:palais(fr)m
• Friulian:palaçm
• Galician:palacio(gl)m,pazo(gl)m
• Georgian:სასახლე(ka)(sasaxle)
• German:Palast(de)m;Schloss(de)n
• Greek:παλάτι(el)n(paláti)

  Ancient:βασίλειονn(basíleion)

• Hebrew:אַרְמוֹן(he)m(armón),הֵיכָל(he)m(hechál)
• Hindi:महल(hi)m(mahal),प्रासाद(hi)m(prāsād)
• Hungarian:palota(hu)
• Icelandic:palataf,höll(is)f
• Ilocano:palasio
• Indonesian:istana(id)
• Ingrian:dvortsa
• Interlingua:palatio
• Irish:pálásm
• Italian:palazzo(it)m
• Japanese:Cung điện(ja)(きゅうでん, kyūden)
• Kalmyk:бәәшң(bääşñ)
• Kannada:ಅರಮನೆ(kn)(aramane)
• Kapampangan:palasiu
• Kazakh:сарай(sarai)
• Khmer:វាំង(km)(vĕəng)
• Korean:궁( cung )(ko)(gung),궁전( cung điện )(ko)(gungjeon)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish:سەرا(sera)

  Northern Kurdish:koşk(ku)f,sera(ku)f,seray(ku)f,qesr(ku)f

• Kyrgyz:сарай(ky)(saray),дворец(dvorets)
• Lao:ຜາສາດ(phā sāt),ປາງ(pāng),ຫໍ(hǭ),ມຸນທຽນ(mun thīan),ວັງ(wang)
• Latin:rēgiaf,palātiumn
• Latvian:pils(lv)f
• Lithuanian:pilis(lt)f,rūmaifpl
• Luhya:ekasri
• Luxembourgish:Palaism
• Macedonian:дво́рецm(dvórec),па́латаf(pálata)
• Malay:istana(ms)
• Maltese:palazzm
• Maori:whare kīngi,where ariki
• Maori:whare ariki
• Marathi:महालm(mahāl)
• Middle English:paleys
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic:орд(mn)(ord),харш(mn)(xarš)

• Neapolitan:palàzzo
• Nepali:दरबार(darbār),महल(ne)(mahal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:palass(no)n

  Nynorsk:palassn

• Occitan:palais(oc)m,palatzm
• Old English:palentm,hēahheallf,salorm
• Ottoman Turkish:سرای(saray)
• Pashto:ماڼۍ(ps)f(mâṇëy),قصر(ps)m(qasər)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian:کَاخ(fa)(kāx),کوشْک(fa)(kōšk),قَصْر(fa)(qasr)

  Iranian Persian:کاخ(fa)(kâx),کوشْک(fa)(kušk),قَصْر(fa)(ğasr)

• Polish:pałac(pl)m
• Portuguese:palácio(pt)m
• Romanian:palat(ro)n
• Romansch:palazm,palazim,palastm
• Russian:дворе́ц(ru)m(dvoréc),черто́г(ru)m(čertóg)(poetic)
• Sanskrit:प्रासाद(sa)m(prāsāda)
• Sardinian:palatzum,palatum,palàtzium
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:дво́рацm,дво̑рm,па̀латаf,па̀лачаf

  Roman:dvórac(sh)m,dvȏr(sh)m,pàlataf,pàlača(sh)f

• Sicilian:palazzu(scn)m
• Sinhalese:මාලිගය(māligaya)
• Slovak:palácm
• Slovene:palača(sl)f
• Southern Altai:ӧргӧӧ(örgöö)
• Spanish:palacio(es)m
• Sumerian:𒂍𒃲(e₂-gal)
• Swahili:kasri(sw),jum(sw)
• Swedish:palats(sv)n;slott(sv)n
• Tagalog:palasyo
• Tajik:кӯшк(tg)(küšk),қаср(qasr),кох(kox)
• Tamil:அரண்மனை(ta)(araṇmaṉai),மாளிகை(ta)(māḷikai)
• Tatar:сарай(tt)(saray)
• Telugu:ప్యాలెస్(pyāles)
• Thai:ตำหนัก(th)(dtam-nàk),พระตำหนัก(th)(prá dtam-nàk),ราชวัง(th),พระราชวัง(th),วัง(th)(wang)
• Tibetan:ཕོ་བྲང(pho brang)
• Tigrinya:ቤተ-መንግስቲ(betä-mängəsti)
• Tocharian B:kerccī,stānk
• Turkish:saray(tr),palas(tr)(archaic)
• Turkmen:köşk,saraý
• Ugaritic:𐎅𐎋𐎍(hkl/⁠hêkal⁠/)
• Ukrainian:пала́цm(palác),дворе́цьm(dvorécʹ)(dated),двіре́цьm(dvirécʹ)(dated, rare)
• Urdu:مَحَلm(mahal),قَصْرm(qasr)
• Uyghur:ساراي(saray),قەسىر(qesir)
• Uzbek:saroy(uz),qasr(uz)
• Venetan:pałasom,palasom,palaçm
• Vietnamese:cung điện(vi)(Cung điện)
• Volapük:ledom(vo),regadom
• Welsh:palasm,plas(cy)m
• Yiddish:פּאַלאַץm(palats),בורגf(burg),היכלm(heykhl),דוואָרעץm(dvorets)

Verb

palace(third-person singular simple presentpalaces,present participlepalacing,simple past and past participlepalaced)

1. (archaic)Todecorateorornate.
   • 1921,Kenneth Morris,The Crest-Wave of Evolution‎^[1]:

     And this Great King was a far-way, tremendous, golden figure, moving in a splendor as of fairy tales;palacedmarvelously, so travelers told, in cities compared with which even Athens seemed mean.

   • 1874,Benj. N. Martin,Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader‎^[2]:

     May, with her green lap full of sprouting leaves and bright blossoms, her song-birds making the orchards and meadows vocal, and rippling streams and cultivated gardens; June, with full-blown roses and humming-bees, plenteous meadows and wide cornfields, with embattled lines rising thick and green; August, with reddened orchards and heavy-headed harvests of grain, October, with yellow leaves and swart shadows; December,palacedin snow, and idly whistling through his numb fingers;-all have their various charm; and in the rose-bowers of summer, and as we spread our hands before the torches of winter, we say joyfully, "Thou hast made all things beautiful in their time."

French

Etymology

BorrowedfromEnglishpalace,itself fromOld Frenchpalais.Doubletofpalais.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/pa.las/

Noun

palacem(pluralpalaces)

1. luxuryhotel

Descendants

• →Turkish:palas

Further reading

• “palace”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Middle English

Noun

palace

1. Alternative form ofpaleys