palatial

Borrowed from French palatial, formed from the root of Latin palātium (“a palace”), from Palātium (“Palatine Hill”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pəˈleɪʃəl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəl

palatial (comparative more palatial, superlative most palatial)

1. Of or relating to a palace.
2. On a grand scale; with very rich furnishings.

   The home where he lived was palatial.

   • 1933, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter I, in The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published 1934, →OCLC, page 1:

     But during those two years for some reason or other the house had fallen into premature and rapid decay. With a very few months an air of mustiness began to hang over the once palatial residence of the rich foreign financier.

• palatially

• palace
• palatine

From palais +‎ -ial.

• IPA^(key): /pa.la.sjal/

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palatial (feminine palatiale, masculine plural palatiaux, feminine plural palatiales)

1. palatial

• “palatial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.