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rome | capitoline |

As proper nouns the difference between rome and capitoline

is that rome is a city on the Tiber River on the Italian peninsula, the capital of a former empire and of the modern region of Lazio and nation of Italy while Capitoline is highest of the seven hills of Rome.

As an adjective Capitoline is

of or relating to the Capitol in Ancient Rome.

rome

English

(wikipedia Rome)

Alternative forms

* (archaic) Rom, Roome, Room, Rhoome, Romme, Rowme, Roym, Rum * (uncommon) Roma

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A city on the Tiber River on the Italian peninsula, the capital of a former empire and of the modern region of Lazio and nation of Italy.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Legend of Good Women) , 1869:
  • Ne]] never was ther kyng in Rome tovn [[since, Syn thilke day.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer) translating (Boethius), (The Consolation of Philosophy) , I iv 441:
  • Now I am remewed]] fro [[paces, pas.
  • * , I ii 157:
  • When could they say (till now) that talk'd of Rome',
    That her wide Walles]] incompast but one man?
    Now is it '''Rome''' indeed, and '
    Roome
    enough
    When there is in it but one [[only, onely man.
  • * 1866 December 8, 'Filius Ecclesiæ', Notes & Queries , "Rome:Room", 456 1:
  • Within the last thirty weeks I have heard the word Rome pronounced Room'' by several old-fashioned people in the north of Ireland, some of my own relations among the number. On remonstrating with one of these, she said, "It was always ''Room when I was at school (say about 1830), and I am too old to change it now."
  • Ancient Rome; the former Roman Empire; Roman civilization.
  • * 1594 , (William Shakespeare), (Titus Andronicus) , I i 82:
  • These that suruiue]], let Rome reward with [[love, loue.
  • * 1711 , (Alexander Pope), "(An Essay on Criticism)", 39:
  • Learning and Rome' alike in Empire grew,
    And Arts still follow'd where her Eagles flew;
    From the same Foes [''viz.'', Tyranny and Superstition], at last, both felt their Doom,
    And the same Age saw Learning fall, and '
    Rome
    .
  • * 1820 , (Lord Byron), (Marino Faliero) , V i:
  • A wife's dishonour unking'd Rome for ever.
  • The Holy See, the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church, particularly prior to the establishment of the Vatican City in the 19th century.
  • * 1537 January 26, T. Starkey, letter:
  • The wych]] you perauenture wyl impute to thys [[defection, defectyon from Rome .
  • * , III ii:
  • . [[roam, Roame thither then.
  • The Church of Rome, the Roman Catholic Church generally.
  • * (William Shakespeare), (The life and death of King Iohn) , V ii 70:
  • King Iohn]] hath reconcil'd [[himself, Himselfe to Rome .
  • (rfv-sense) (archaic) Constantinople, the "New Rome"; the Byzantine Empire.
  • * 1603 , Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes , 13:
  • Yet haue]] the Sarasins attempted both Romes ; they haue besieged Constantinople, and [[have, haue wasted... the Sea coasts of Italy.
  • * 1999 , G. Vallée, Shaping of Christianity , X 203:
  • The weakening of the two Romes created the space for the emergence of both the Holy Roman Empire of the Franks and the Islamic Empire.
  • (rfv-sense) (obsolete) Moscow, the "Third Rome".
  • * 1823 , Robert Lyall, The Character of the Russians and a Detailed History of Moscow , 28:
  • Moscow is a third Rome , say these historians, and a fourth shall never be.
  • * 1945 , Nicholas Zernov, Russians & their Church , 51 translating (Filofei) of Pskov, letter to (Vasili III)
  • The Church of old Rome' fell for its heresy; the gates of the second '''Rome''', Constantinople, were hewn down by the axes of the infidel Turks; but the Church of Moscow, the Church of the new ' Rome , shines brighter than the sun in the whole universe.

    Synonyms

    * (archaic ) Romeburg, Romeburgh, Romeland, Romelede, Romethede, Rome town * (dated ) Rome city * Istanbul, Constantinople (new Rome ) * Moscow (third Rome'', ''new Rome )

    Derived terms

    * * * * * * * (dated )

    See also

    * Roma * Romania * romance, romantic * Romulan

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    capitoline

    English

    (Capitoline Hill)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the Capitol in Ancient Rome.
  • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Highest of the seven hills of Rome.
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