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

Etymology

From Latin senātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈnat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seˈnat]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

senat m (plural senats)

1. senate

Related terms

• senador

Further reading

• “senat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “senat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “senat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “senat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin senatus.

Noun

senat n (singular definite senatet, plural indefinite senater)

1. a senate

Declension

Declension of senat

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	senat	senatet	senater	senaterne
genitive	senats	senatets	senaters	senaternes

Related terms

• senator
• senatsvalg

References

• “senat” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Etymology

From Latin senātus, from senex (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsenɑt/, [ˈsenɑtˑ]
• Rhymes: -enɑt
• Hyphenation: se‧nat

Noun

senat (genitive senati, partitive senatit)

1. (politics) senate (the upper house of a bicameral parliament in several countries)
2. senate (a collegial decision-making body in some universities)
3. (historical) Senate (in ancient Rome, a council of family elders or a higher council of state)
4. (historical) Senate (in Russia, initially the legislative and governing body of the state, later the supervisory body of the judiciary.)

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

Derived terms

• senaator

References

• senat in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “senat”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

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
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

senat (plural senat-senat)

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 [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Ladin

Noun

senat m (plural senac)

1. senate

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian senato, from Latin senatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈnaːt/
• Rhymes: -aːt
• 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:

  (file)

• 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 inan (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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	senat	senats
	definite	senaten	senatens
plural	indefinite	senater	senaters
	definite	senaterna	senaternas

Anagrams

• enats, etans, saten, stena