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):

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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

 

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)
• 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 (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
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Ватикан (Vatikan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Vatikan n

• Persian:

  Dari: وَاتِیکَان (fa) (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
• 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