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PALATINE
Definition of PALATINE
adjective
Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign. Subject to palatine authority.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From late Middle English palatyne, from Old French palatin, from Medieval Latin palātīnus (“relating to the palace”), from palātium (“palace”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of paladin.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,343)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PALATINE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PALATINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 48 boards so far. 141 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 29, 18 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 160, 27 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 33, 22 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PALATINE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AAEILNPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PALATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 29
Could you have found PALATINE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 29 - and most players walked straight past it.
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