delphinate
/ˈdɛlfɪnət/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of Dauphiny and Dauphiné
Example Sentences
- "[…] in the Delphinate […]"
- "[…] within the dominions of our beloved son, Charles, Duke of Savoy, and the Delphinate, and the cities and diocese of Vienne, and Sedun, […]"
- "Thus originated the houses of the counts of Vienne—whose territory was afterwards called the Delphinate—of Savoy—who soon extended their dominion over the Alps into Italy,—of High Burgundy—called afterwards Franche Comté—and others."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷelbʰ-der. Ancient Greek δελφίς (delphís)bor. Latin delphīnus Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus, -tūs Latin -ātus Latin delphīnātus Latin Vienna Latin -ēnsis Latin Viennēnsis Latin Delphīnātus Viennēnsisellip. Latin Delphīnātusbor. English Delphinate Borrowed from Medieval Latin Delphīnātus (literally “the Dauphinate”), ellipsis of Delphīnātus Viennēnsis (“the Dauphinate of Vienne”, literally “the Viennese Dauphinate”). The Latin delphīnātus (“dauphinate”) derives from delphīnus (“dauphin”) + -ātus (suffix forming abstract nouns). Doublet of dauphinate, Dauphiny, and Dauphiné.
Inflected Forms
the Delphinate (canonical)