Vatican
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From Latin Vātī̆cānus(“Vatican Hill”), ultimately from vāticinārī(“to prophesy, oracle”). 'Vatican', a name dating back to the Roman Republic, would be the place from where prophecies would be issued. Cognate to Odin.
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Vatican
1550s, from Latin mons Vaticanus, Roman hill on which Papal palace stands. By Klein's sources said to be an Etruscan loan-word and unrelated to vates "soothsayer, prophet, seer" (see vates), but most others seem to think it is related, on the notion of "hill of prophecy" (compare vaticinatio "a foretelling, soothsaying, prophesying," vaticinari "to foretell").
