Vatican City

English

Etymology

Calque of Italian Città del Vaticano, from Latin Cīvitās Vāticāna (“Vatican City”), referring to the Vatican hill, ultimately from vāticinor (“I prophesy”).

Pronunciation

(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈvæ.tɪ.kən ˈsɪt.i/
Audio (US) (file)

Proper noun

Vatican City

A country in Europe, located inside Rome, Italy. Official name: Vatican City State.

Derived terms

Vaticanian (a person from Vatican City)

Translations

State of the Vatican City

Albanian: Vatikan m
Arabic: اَلْفَاتِيكَان‎ m (al-fatikān)
Armenian: Վատիկան (hy) (Vatikan)
Azerbaijani: Vatikan (az)
Bashkir: Ватикан (Vatikan)
Bavarian: Vatikanstod
Belarusian: Ватыка́н m (Vatykán)
Bengali: ভ্যাটিকান সিটি (bbhaṭikan siṭi), ভ্যাটিকান (bn) (bbhaṭikan)
Breton: ar Vatikan
Bulgarian: Ватика́на (bg) f (Vatikána)
Burmese: ဗာတီကန်စီးတီး (batikanci:ti:), ဗာတီကန် (batikan)
Catalan: Ciutat del Vaticà (ca) f, el Vaticà (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 梵蒂岡 (zh), 梵蒂冈 (zh) m (Fàndìgāng)
Czech: Vatikán (cs) m
Danish: Vatikanstaten (da), Vatikanet
Dhivehi: ވެޓިކަން ސިޓީ‎ (dv) (veṭikan siṭī), ވެޓިކަން‎ (veṭikan)
Dutch: Vaticaanstad (nl) f, het Vaticaan (nl) n
Esperanto: Vatikano (eo)
Estonian: Vatikan (et)
Faroese: Vatikanið n
Finnish: Vatikaani (fi)
French: Vatican (fr) m
Galician: O Vaticano m, Cidade do Vaticano (gl)
Georgian: ვატიკანი (vaṭiḳani)
German: Vatikanstadt (de) f, Vatikan (de) m
Rhine Franconian: Wadigaan (Palatine)
Greek: Βατικανό (el) n (Vatikanó)
Hebrew: קִרְײַת הָװַתִיקָן‎ (kiryat ha-vatikan), הָװַתִיקָן / הָוָתִיקָן‎ (ha-vatikan)
Hindi: वेटिकन सिटी (veṭikan siṭī), वेटिकन (veṭikan)
Hungarian: Vatikán (hu)
Icelandic: Vatíkanborg f
Ido: Vatikano (io)
Indonesian: Vatikan (id)
Interlingua: Vaticano
Irish: Cathair na Vatacáine f
Italian: Città del Vaticano (it) f
Japanese: バチカン (ja) (Bachikan), 法王庁 (ほうおうちょう, Hōōchō)
Kashubian: Watikan
Kazakh: Ватикан (Vatïkan)
Khmer: បុរីវ៉ាទីកង់ (km) (borəy vaatiikɑng), វ៉ាទីកង់ (vaatiikɑng)
Korean: 바티칸 시국 (Batikan siguk), 바티칸 (Batikan)
Kyrgyz: Ватикан (Vatikan)
Lao: ວາຕິກັນ (wā ti kan)
Latin: Civitas Vaticana f
Latvian: Vatikāns (lv) m
Limburgish: Vatikaanstad (li)

Lithuanian: Vatikanas (lt) m
Lombard: Cità del Vatican
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: Vatikaanstad f
Luxembourgish: Vatikanstad
Macedonian: Ва́тикан (mk) m (Vátikan)
Malay: Kota Vatikan, Vatikan
Maltese: Vatikan, il-Belt tal-Vatikan
Manx: Ard-Valley yn Phaab m
Mongolian: Ватикан (Vatikan)
Navajo: Bádikin Sídii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Vatikanstaten (no) n, Vatikanet n

Nynorsk: Vatikanstaten (nn) n, Vatikanet n
Persian: واتیکان‎ (fa) (vâtikân)
Piedmontese: Sità dël Vatican
Polish: Watykan (pl) m
Portuguese: Vaticano (pt)
Romanian: Vatican (ro) n, (sometimes) Sfântul Scaun (ro) n, Statul Cetății Vaticanului n
Romansch: Citad dal Vatican f
Russian: Ватика́н (ru) m (Vatikán)
Rusyn: Ватікан (Vatikan)
Scots: Vatican Ceety
Scottish Gaelic: Cathair na Bhatacain
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Ва̏тика̄н m, Све̑та̄ Сто̀лица f

Latin: Vȁtikān (sh) m, Svȇtā Stòlica f
Sicilian: Cità dû Vaticanu f
Silesian: Watykůn n
Slovak: Vatikán (sk) m
Slovene: Vatikan (sl) m, Sveti sedež (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Vatikańske město

Upper Sorbian: Vatikanske město
Spanish: el Vaticano, Ciudad del Vaticano (es)
Swedish: Vatikanstaten (sv), Vatikanen (sv)
Tagalog: Lungsod Batikano, Batikano
Tajik: Вотикон (tg) (Votikon)
Thai: วาติกัน (waa-dtì-gan), นครวาติกัน (ná-kɔɔn waa-dtì-gan)
Turkish: Vatikan (tr)
Turkmen: Watikan
Ukrainian: Ватика́н (uk) m (Vatykán)
Urdu: ویٹیکن سٹی‎ (vēṭikan siṭī), ویٹیکن‎ (vēṭikan)
Uzbek: Vatikan (uz)
Vietnamese: Thành Va-ti-căng, Va-ti-căng, Thành Quốc Vatican, Thành Vatican
Welsh: Dinas y Fatican f
Yiddish: וואַטיקאַן‎ (vatikan)

Vatican City

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