palatine

Of the court

Palatine describes something relating to a palace or to a count or earl who held royal privileges in a particular territory.

A palatine jurisdiction was one where a local lord exercised powers normally reserved for the king.

The word also has an anatomical meaning: the palatine bones form part of the roof of the mouth and the floor of the nasal cavity.

The palatine tonsils sit at the back of the throat. (Capitalized Palatine refers to specific places, especially a hill in Rome.)

feudal

elector

Enfranchised citizen

Chester · Lancaster · imperial · feudal · autonomous · jurisdiction · regalia · fief · medieval · hereditary

anatomy

maxilla

Upper jaw bone

ethmoid · vomer

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social rank/authority

palatinepeasant

Low-status agricultural laborer

commoner · serf · lowborn · villein · vassal

anatomical location

palatinelingual

Of the tongue

sublingual · mandibular · buccal · labial · pharyngeal

Family

palatial

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