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Vatican

va·ti·can

UK/ˈvæ.tɪ.kən/ US/ˈvætɪkʌn/ fairly common

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the residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City

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

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