2007-07-13 09:42:14 · 3 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Vatican is a section of Pre Christian Rome. I think that it came from a name of a Roman family that owned property there before the time of Nero. There was a Pre Christian cemetery there. Maybe the Latin Vaticanus comes from "Vatis Canis","The dog of the seer"?
In modern languages Vatican means the tiny Papal State in Rome, the area around St Peter's Basilica. Vatican can also mean the headquarters of the universal Catholic Church or the church officials working there.
The word comes from Latin and I think that it did not come though Greek or Hebrew at all, but i could be wrong
2007-07-13 09:54:02 · answer #1 · answered by James O 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sigmund is sturdy. one greater step: the Vatican all of us understand now have been given its call from its area, Vatican Hill, between the hills of historic Rome. The call is older than the Catholic Church.
2016-09-29 22:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's roman for tax collector
2007-07-13 09:47:42 · answer #3 · answered by candylicious 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋