senator
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- senatour (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.ə.tə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.ə.tɚ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: sen‧a‧tor
Noun[edit]
senator (plural senators)
- A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada.
- 2003, Olga Gardner Galvin, The Alphabet Challenge, Page 31
- It was disbanded when Derrick was only six, after that grouchy old ultra-Libertarian Senator Timothy de Illy made “welfare hotel for Third-World nations” a household catchphrase.
- 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep[1], New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 78:
- I was a United States senator-elect at age thirty.
- 2003, Olga Gardner Galvin, The Alphabet Challenge, Page 31
- (dated) A member of any legislative body or parliament, particularly the British Parliament.
- (historical) A member of the ancient Roman Senate.
- (historical) A member of a governing council in other states in the ancient world.
- A member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman.[1]
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, (please specify the page):
- Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
- (obsolete) An important church official.
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Translations[edit]
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References[edit]
- “senator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Further reading[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
- Santore, anteros, asteron, atoners, nor'-east, nose art, noseart, one-star, orantes, ornates, roneats, rotanes, santero, seatron, tenoras, treason
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: se‧na‧tor
Noun[edit]
senator m (plural senatoren or senators, diminutive senatortje n)
Related terms[edit]
Ladin[edit]
Noun[edit]
senator f (plural senatores)
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From senātus (“senate”) + -tor, originally from senex (“old”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /seˈnaː.tor/, [s̠ɛˈnäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈna.tor/, [seˈnäːt̪or]
Noun[edit]
senātor m (genitive senātōris); third declension
- senator, member of the Roman Senate
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | senātor | senātōrēs |
Genitive | senātōris | senātōrum |
Dative | senātōrī | senātōribus |
Accusative | senātōrem | senātōrēs |
Ablative | senātōre | senātōribus |
Vocative | senātor | senātōrēs |
Derived terms[edit]
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “senator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “senator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- senator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
senator m (definite singular senatoren, indefinite plural senatorer, definite plural senatorene)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “senator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
senator m (definite singular senatoren, indefinite plural senatorar, definite plural senatorane)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “senator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
senator oblique singular, m (oblique plural senators, nominative singular senators, nominative plural senator)
- senator (in Ancient Rome)
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin senātor.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
senator m pers (feminine senatorka, related adjective senatorski)
- (government) senator (member in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate)
- Hypernym: parlamentarzysta
- (government, historical) senator (member of an assembly of higher secular and clerical officials in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
- (government) senator (member of a local parliament in each of the states of the United States of America)
- (Ancient Rome, government, historical) senator (member of the Roman Senate)
- (government) senator (member of a city council in some cities)
- (education) senator (member of a college made up of the rector, vice-rectors, deans, and representatives of academic staff, students, and administrative staff, holding leadership positions at a university)
- (zoology) older and strong male in a group of baboons
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |
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nominative | senator | senatorzy/senatorowie/senatory (deprecative) |
genitive | senatora | senatorów |
dative | senatorowi | senatorom |
accusative | senatora | senatorów |
instrumental | senatorem | senatorami |
locative | senatorze | senatorach |
vocative | senatorze | senatorzy/senatorowie/senatory (deprecative) |
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- senator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- senator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- senator in PWN's encyclopedia
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French sénateur, Latin senātor.
Noun[edit]
senator m (plural senatori)
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) senator | senatorul | (niște) senatori | senatorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) senator | senatorului | (unor) senatori | senatorilor |
vocative | senatorule | senatorilor |
Related terms[edit]
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From sènāt.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sènātor m (Cyrillic spelling сѐна̄тор)
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |
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nominative | senator | senatori |
genitive | senatora | senatora |
dative | senatoru | senatorima |
accusative | senatora | senatore |
vocative | senatore | senatori |
locative | senatoru | senatorima |
instrumental | senatorom | senatorima |
References[edit]
- “senator” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
senator c
- a senator (member of a senate)
Declension[edit]
Declension of senator | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | senator | senatorn | senatorer | senatorerna |
Genitive | senators | senatorns | senatorers | senatorernas |
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- en:Occupations
- en:People
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- nl:Government
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- la:Occupations
- la:Politics
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- nb:Politics
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- nn:Politics
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- pl:Government
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- pl:Ancient Rome
- pl:Education
- pl:Zoology
- pl:History of Poland
- pl:Male animals
- pl:Male people
- pl:Occupations
- pl:Old World monkeys
- pl:United States
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