pal·a·tine a.
 1. Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
 Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County.
 Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the Cæsars. See also Palatine Hill in the vocabulary, and Palace.

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 Pal·a·tine n.
 1. One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.
 2. The Palatine hill in Rome.

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 Count, n.  A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.
 Note: ☞ Though the tittle Count has never been introduced into Britain, the wives of Earls have, from the earliest period of its history, been designated as Countesses.
 Count palatine. (a) Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster. [Eng.] See County palatine, under County. (b) Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains. [Germany]

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 count palatine
      n : a count who exercised royal authority in his own domains