paladin

See also: paladín and palladin

English

Etymology

From French paladin, from Italian paladino, from Late Latin palātīnus (“palace officer”), derived from palātium (“palace”). Doublet of palatine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpælədɪn/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

paladin (plural paladins)

1. A heroic champion, especially a knight.
2. A defender or advocate of a noble cause.
3. Any of the twelve Companions of the court of Emperor Charlemagne.

Translations

heroic champion

• Catalan: paladí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 聖騎士／圣骑士 (sing³ ke⁴ si⁶)

• Czech: paladin (cs) m
• Dutch: paladijn (nl) m
• French: paladin (fr) m, paladins (fr) m pl
• German: Paladin (de) m
• Greek: ιππότης (el) (ippótis), παλαδίνος (el) (paladínos)
• Ido: paladino (io)
• Irish: palaidín m
• Italian: paladino (it) m, paladina (it) f
• Latin: pugnator m, pugnatrix f
• Macedonian: па́ладин m (páladin) (historical, fantasy)
• Ottoman Turkish: آلپ (alp), یكیت (yigit), قهرمان (kahraman), قوچاق (koçak), پهلوان (pehlevân, pehlivân)
• Polish: paladyn m
• Portuguese: paladino m
• Russian: паладин (ru) (paladin) (historical, fantasy), храмовник (ru) (xramovnik, literally “Templar”)
• Serbo-Croatian: paladin (sh) m
• Slovene: paladin m
• Spanish: paladín (es) m

defender or advocate of a noble cause

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圣骑士 (shèngqíshì)

• German: Beschützer (de) m, Vorkämpfer (de) m, Fürsprecher (de) m, Verfechter (de) m
• Macedonian: хра́брец m (hrábrec)
• Spanish: paladín (es) m, defensor (es) m

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian paladino, from Latin palatīnus. Doublet of palatin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.la.dɛ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

paladin m (plural paladins)

1. paladin

Further reading

• “paladin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French paladin or Italian paladino.

Noun

paladin m (plural paladini)

1. paladin

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	paladin	paladinul		paladini	paladinii
genitive-dative	paladin	paladinului		paladini	paladinilor
vocative	paladinule			paladinilor

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paladíːn/

Noun

paladȋn m anim

1. paladin

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	paladín
gen. sing.	paladína
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	paladín	paladína	paladíni
genitive (rodȋlnik)	paladína	paladínov	paladínov
dative (dajȃlnik)	paladínu	paladínoma	paladínom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	paladína	paladína	paladíne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	paladínu	paladínih	paladínih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	paladínom	paladínoma	paladíni