Vatican

See also: vatican

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈvæ.tɪ.kən/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

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. A city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. Official name: Vatican City State.
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.

Derived terms

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

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: バチカン (Bachikan)

Translations

state

• Afrikaans: Vatikaanstad, Vatikaan
• Albanian: Vatikan m
• Amharic: ቫቲካን (vatikan)
• Arabic: الْفَاتِيكَان f (al-fatikān) (definite), الْفَاتِيكَان f (al-vatikān) (definite)
• Armenian: Վատիկան (hy) (Vatikan)
• Aromanian: Vãtican m
• Azerbaijani: Vatikan (az)
• Belarusian: Ватыка́н m (Vatykán)
• Bengali: ভ্যাটিকান (bn) (bhêṭikan)
• 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)
• Dhivehi: ވެޓިކަން (veṭikan̊)
• Dutch: Vaticaan (nl) n
• 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)
• Gujarati: વેટિકન (veṭikan)
• Hebrew: הוַותִיקָן f (vatikán)
• Hindi: वेटिकन m (veṭikan)
• Hungarian: Vatikán (hu)
• Indonesian: Vatikan (id)
• Irish: An Vatacáin f
• Italian: Vaticano m
• Japanese: バチカン (ja) (Bachikan)
• Kazakh: Ватикан (kk) (Vatikan)
• Khmer: វ៉ាទីកង់ (vaatiikɑng)
• Korean: 바티칸 (ko) (Batikan), 바띠까노 (ko) (Battikkano) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: Ватикан (ky) (Vatikan)
• Lao: ວາ​ຕິ​ກັນ (wā ti kan), ວາຕິກັງ (wā ti kang), ວາຕິກັງ (wā ti kang)
• Latin: Vātī̆cānus m
• Latvian: Vatikāns (lv) m
• Lithuanian: Vatikanas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Ва́тикан (mk) m (Vátikan)
• Malay: Vatikan (ms)
• Maori: Watikana, Whatikana
• Marathi: व्हॅटिकन (vhĕṭikan)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Ватикан (Vatikan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Vatikan n

• Persian:

  Dari: وَاتِیکَان (wātīkān)

  Iranian 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
• Swedish: Vatikan (sv) n
• Tagalog: Batikano
• Tajik: Вотикон (tg) (Votikon)
• Telugu: వాటికన్ (vāṭikan)
• Thai: วาติกัน (waa-dtì-gan)
• Turkish: Vatikan (tr)
• Turkmen: Watikan
• Ukrainian: Ватика́н (uk) m (Vatykán)
• Urdu: ویٹِیکَن m (veṭīkan)
• 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

• Afrikaans: Vatikaans
• Aromanian: vãticãnescu m, vãticãneascã f
• Asturian: vaticanu (ast)
• 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
• Ukrainian: вати́канський (uk) (vatýkansʹkyj)

References

• “Vatican”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Vacanti

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vatikˈan]

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Vatican m

1. Vatican City (a city-state in Southern Europe, an enclave within the city of Rome, Italy)
2. the Vatican

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	Vatican	Vaticanul
genitive-dative	Vatican	Vaticanului
vocative	Vaticanule

See also

• (countries of Europe) țările Europei; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaidjan, Belarus, Belgia, Bosnia și Herțegovina, Bulgaria, Cehia, Cipru, Croația, Danemarca, Elveția, Estonia, Finlanda, Franța, Georgia, Germania, Grecia, Irlanda, Islanda, Italia, Kazahstan, Letonia, Liechtenstein, Lituania, Luxemburg, Macedonia de Nord, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Muntenegru, Norvegia, Polonia, Portugalia, Regatul Unit, România, Rusia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovacia, Slovenia, Spania, Suedia, Turcia, Țările de Jos, Ucraina, Ungaria, Vatican ^{(Category: ro:Countries in Europe)}