senat

See also: Senat, sénat, senát, and Senát

English

Noun

senat (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of senet (“ancient board game”)

Anagrams

• Antes, Teans, Tenas, antes, etnas, nates, neats, netas, stane, stean

Catalan

Noun

senat m (plural senats)

1. senate

Related terms

• senador

Estonian

Etymology

From German Senat, from Latin senātus (“council of elders”).

Noun

senat (genitive senati, partitive senatit)

1. senate

Declension

Declension of senat (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		senat	senatid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	senati
genitive			senatite
partitive		senatit	senateid
illative		senatisse	senatitesse senateisse
inessive		senatis	senatites senateis
elative		senatist	senatitest senateist
allative		senatile	senatitele senateile
adessive		senatil	senatitel senateil
ablative		senatilt	senatitelt senateilt
translative		senatiks	senatiteks senateiks
terminative		senatini	senatiteni
essive		senatina	senatitena
abessive		senatita	senatiteta
comitative		senatiga	senatitega

References

• senat in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch senaat, from Old French senat, from Latin senātus (“council of elders; a senate”), from senex (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛnat̪̚]
• Hyphenation: sè‧nat

Noun

senat (first-person possessive senatku, second-person possessive senatmu, third-person possessive senatnya)

1. senate:
   1. (government) the upper house or chamber in some bicameral legislative systems.
   2. a group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age and male.

Related terms

• senator
• senior

 

Further reading

• “senat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Ladin

Noun

senat m (plural senac)

1. senate

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian senato, from Latin senatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈnaːt/
• Homophone: sengħat (except archaically)

Noun

senat m (plural senati)

1. (politics) senate

Middle French

Noun

senat m (plural senats)

1. senate

Descendants

• French: sénat (see there for further descendants)
• → Dutch: senaat
  • Afrikaans: senaat
  • → Indonesian: senat
• → Middle English: senat
  • English: senate
    • → Swahili: seneti

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin senatus.

Noun

senat n (definite singular senatet, indefinite plural senat or senater, definite plural senata or senatene)

1. a senate

Related terms

• senator

References

• “senat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin senatus.

Noun

senat n (definite singular senatet, indefinite plural senat, definite plural senata)

1. a senate

Related terms

• senator

References

• “senat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

senat

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin senātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.nat/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛnat
• Syllabification: se‧nat
• Homophone: Senat

Noun

senat m inan (related adjective senacki)

1. (government) senate (upper house of a bicameral parliament)

   Coordinate term: sejm

   Hypernym: parlament

   1. upper house (total number of people who sit in the upper house of a parliament)
   2. upper house (building of the upper house of a parliament)
2. (government, historical) senate (assembly of higher secular and clerical officials in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)

   Hypernym: zgromadzenie

   1. (historical) senate (total number of people who sit in a senate in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
3. (government) senate (local parliament in each of the states of the United States of America)
4. (government) senate (city council in some cities)
5. (education) senate (college made up of the rector, vice-rectors, deans, and representatives of academic staff, students, and administrative staff, holding leadership positions at a university)
6. (law) senate (court of higher instance in the judicial system of some countries)

Declension

Declension of senat

	singular	plural
nominative	senat	senaty
genitive	senatu	senatów
dative	senatowi	senatom
accusative	senat	senaty
instrumental	senatem	senatami
locative	senacie	senatach
vocative	senacie	senaty

Derived terms

noun

• Senat

 

Related terms

adjective

• senatorski

 

nouns

• senator
• senatoria
• senatorka
• senatorostwo
• senatorstwo

 

Further reading

• senat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• senat in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• senat in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sénat, from Latin senātus.

Noun

senat n (plural senate)

1. senate
2. senate-house

Related terms

• senator

See also

• parlament

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sénat, Latin senātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sěnaːt/
• Hyphenation: se‧nat

Noun

sènāt m (Cyrillic spelling сѐна̄т)

1. senate

Declension

Declension of senat

	singular	plural
nominative	sènāt	senati
genitive	senáta	senata
dative	senatu	senatima
accusative	senat	senate
vocative	senate	senati
locative	senatu	senatima
instrumental	senatom	senatima

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin senātus.

Noun

senat c

1. senate

Declension

Declension of senat
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	senat	senaten	senater	senaterna
Genitive	senats	senatens	senaters	senaternas

Anagrams

• enats, etans, saten, stena