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senat

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See also: Senat, sénat, senát, and Senát

English

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Noun

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senat (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of senet (ancient board game)

Anagrams

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Catalan

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Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:
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Noun

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senat m (plural senats)

  1. senate
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Estonian

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Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Latin senātus, from senex (old).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

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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

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References

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  • 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

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛnat̪̚]
  • Hyphenation: sè‧nat
  • Rhymes: -at

Noun

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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.
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Further reading

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Ladin

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Noun

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senat m (plural senac)

  1. senate

Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian senato, from Latin senatus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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senat m (plural senati)

  1. (politics) senate

Middle French

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Noun

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senat m (plural senats)

  1. senate

Descendants

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  • French: sénat (see there for further descendants)
  • Dutch: senaat
  • Middle English: senat

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Latin senatus.

Noun

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

  1. a senate
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References

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin senatus.

Noun

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

  1. a senate
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References

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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senat

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin senātus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.nat/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnat
  • Syllabification: se‧nat
  • Homophone: Senat

Noun

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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

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Derived terms

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adjective
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Further reading

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sénat, from Latin senātus.

Noun

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senat n (plural senate)

  1. senate
  2. senate-house
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See also

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sénat, Latin senātus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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sènāt m (Cyrillic spelling сѐна̄т)

  1. senate

Declension

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin senātus.

Noun

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senat c

  1. senate

Declension

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Anagrams

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