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- Latin · derived frompalātium“palace, large residence”
- Italian · borrowed frompalazzo
- English todaypalazzo
Borrowed from Italian palazzo, from Latin palātium (“palace, large residence”), from Palātium (“Palatine”), one of the seven hills of Rome, where aristocrats built large homes. Doublet of palace and Pfalz.
Words from the same roots
Latinpalātium all →
palacePfalzpalatial
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.