A user comment on a website states the following as the origin of the word "Vatican":
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Is this true? Wiktionary had nothing on the origin of the word, so I was hoping that someone here might have the answers.The word Vatican comes from Old Latin ‘vatis’ = prophetic & ‘can’ = serpent/dragon.
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