Vatican

See also: vatican

English

Etymology

From Latin Vātī̆cānus (“Vatican Hill”), ultimately from vāticinārī (“to prophesy, oracle”). 'Vatican', a name dating back to the Roman Republic, would be the place from where prophecies would be issued.

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈvæ.tɪ.kən/
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Proper noun

Vatican

The official residence of the Pope within Vatican City.
The papal government; the papacy, the Holy See.
(for short) Vatican City.
Roman Catholicism.

Derived terms

Translations

state

Albanian: Vatikan m
Arabic: اَلْفَاتِيكَان‎ f (al-fātīkān)
Armenian: Վատիկան (hy) (Vatikan)
Azerbaijani: Vatikan (az)
Belarusian: Ватыка́н m (Vatykán)
Bengali: ভ্যাটিকান (bn) (bbhaṭikan)
Bulgarian: Ватика́на (bg) f (Vatikána)
Burmese: ဗာတီကန် (batikan)
Catalan: el Vaticà (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 梵蒂岡 (zh), 梵蒂冈 (zh) (Fàndìgāng)
Czech: Vatikán (cs) m
Danish: Vatikanet n (definite form), Vatikanstaten (da) c (post-1929 state)
Dhivehi: ވެޓިކަން‎ (veṭikan)
Estonian: Vatikan (et)
Finnish: Vatikaani (fi)
French: Vatican (fr) m
Galician: Vaticano m
Georgian: ვატიკანი (vaṭiḳani)
German: Vatikan (de) m
Greek: Βατικανό (el) n (Vatikanó)
Hebrew: הוַותִיקָן‎ (vatikán)
Hindi: वेटिकन (veṭikan)
Hungarian: Vatikán (hu)
Indonesian: Vatikan (id)
Irish: An Vatacáin f
Italian: Vaticano m
Japanese: バチカン (ja) (Bachikan)
Kazakh: Ватикан (Vatïkan)
Khmer: វ៉ាទីកង់ (vaatiikɑng)
Korean: 바티칸 (Batikan)

Kyrgyz: Ватикан (Vatikan)
Lao: ວາຕິກັນ (wā ti kan), ວາຕິກັງ (wā ti kang)
Latin: Vātī̆cānus m
Latvian: Vatikāns (lv) m
Lithuanian: Vatikanas (lt) m
Macedonian: Ва́тикан (mk) m (Vátikan)
Malay: Vatikan
Maori: Watikana, Whatikana
Mongolian: Ватикан (Vatikan)
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 (vatikānu)
Slovak: Vatikán (sk) m
Slovene: Vatikan (sl) m
Spanish: Vaticano (es) m
Tagalog: Batikano
Tajik: Вотикон (tg) (Votikon)
Thai: วาติกัน (waa-dtì-gan)
Turkish: Vatikan (tr)
Turkmen: Watikan
Ukrainian: Ватика́н (uk) m (Vatykán)
Urdu: ویٹیکن‎ (veṭikan)
Uzbek: Vatikan (uz)
Vietnamese: Va-ti-căng
Yiddish: וואַטיקאַן‎ (vatikan)

Adjective

Vatican (not comparable)

Relating to the Vatican City state.

Derived terms

Translations

Relating to the Vatican City state

Catalan: vaticà
French: vatican (fr) m
Galician: vaticano
German: vatikanisch (de)
Irish: Vatacánach, na Vatacáine
Italian: vaticano (it)
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)

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