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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]senatus
- A governing body in certain universities.
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From senex (“old”) + -ātus; literally, a chamber of elders.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /seˈnaː.tus/, [s̠ɛˈnäːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈna.tus/, [seˈnäːt̪us]
Noun
[edit]senātus m (genitive senātūs); fourth declension
- Alternative letter-case form of Senatus, the Roman Senate
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.2:
- O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?
- Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!
- O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.63–64:
- ‘nec nisi post annōs patuit tunc cūriā sērōs,
nōmen et aetātis mīte senātus erat.’- ‘‘Nor then was the Senate-house open [to a citizen] except after [his] latter years, and [the word] Senate [itself] was the mellow name of old age.’’
(The muse Urania is speaking. “Senatus,” the Roman Senate, relates to another word that is “aetatis” or “of old age”: senex – i.e., the Senate was a council of elderly men.)
- ‘‘Nor then was the Senate-house open [to a citizen] except after [his] latter years, and [the word] Senate [itself] was the mellow name of old age.’’
- ‘nec nisi post annōs patuit tunc cūriā sērōs,
- c. 82 C.E., Arch of Titus:
- SENATVS
POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS- The Senate and the People of Rome
- senate, a council of elders, parliament, or similar deliberative body
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | senātus | senātūs |
Genitive | senātūs | senātuum |
Dative | senātuī | senātibus |
Accusative | senātum | senātūs |
Ablative | senātū | senātibus |
Vocative | senātus | senātūs |
Note: Old forms of the genitive singular are senātuis and senātī.
Synonyms
[edit]- (governing council): curia, parlamentum (Medieval)
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]Some Romance borrowings may be semi-learned.
- → Armenian: սենատ (senat)
- → Basque: senatu
- → Belarusian: сенат (sjenat)
- → Bulgarian: сенат (senat)
- → Catalan: senat
- → Cornish: senedh
- → Czech: senát
- → Danish: senat
- → Estonian: senat
- → Finnish: senaatti
- → Old French: senat
- → Georgian: სენატი (senaṭi)
- → German: Senat
- → Hungarian: szenátus
- → Irish: seanad
- → Italian: senato
- → Ladin: senat
- → Macedonian: сенат (senat)
- → Norwegian: senat
- → Polish: senat
- → Portuguese: senado
- → Romanian: senat
- → Russian: сенат (senat)
- → Kazakh: сенат (senat)
- → Spanish: senado
- → Cebuano: senado
- → Scottish Gaelic: seanadh
- → Sicilian: sinatu
- → Swedish: senat
- → Ukrainian: сенат (senat)
- → Venetan: senado
- → Welsh: senedd
- → Yiddish: סענאַט (senat)
References
[edit]- “senatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “senatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- senatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- senatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to expel from the senate: e senatu eicere
- to expel from the senate: senatu movere
- to elect to the senate: in senatum legere, eligere
- to call a meeting of the senate: senatum vocare, convocare
- to assemble the senate: senatum cogere (Liv. 3. 39)
- to issue a proclamation calling on the senators to assemble in full force: edicere, ut senatus frequens adsit (Fam. 11. 6. 2)
- to hold a sitting of the senate: senatum habere
- to bring a question before the senate (of the presiding magistrate): ad senatum referre (Cic. Dom. 53. 136)
- to consult the senators on a matter: patres (senatum) consulere de aliqua re (Sall. Iug. 28)
- the senate inclines to the opinion, decides for..: senatus sententia inclīnat ad... (De Sen. 6. 16)
- the senate decreed (and the people ratified the decree) that..: senatus decrevit (populusque iussit) ut
- a resolution of the senate (not opposed by a tribunicial veto) was made: senatus consultum fit (Att. 2. 24. 3)
- the opinion of the senate in general: senatus auctoritas
- to give a man audience before the senate: senatum alicui dare (Q. Fr. 2. 11. 2)
- a matter is referred (for decision) from the senate to the people: a senatu res ad populum reicitur
- to dismiss the senate: dimittere senatum
- night breaks up the sitting: nox senatum dirimit
- the senate decrees to Africanus the honours of a triumph: triumphum senatus Africano decernit (Fin. 4. 9. 22)
- he received from the senate the title of friend: a senatu amicus appellatus est (B. G. 1. 3)
- to expel from the senate: e senatu eicere
- “senatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- senatus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “senatus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Old English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]senatus ?
- the senate of Rome
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- Æfter þǣm Centenus Penula sē consul bæd þætte senatus him fultum sealdon, þæt hē mehte Hanibal mid ġefohte ġesēċan.
- After that, the consul Centenius Penula asked that the Senate give him aid, so that he could seek to meet Hannibal in battle.
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- senator, the senators of Rome as a body
Declension
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Usage notes
[edit]- This word is typically plural, although there is one attestation of a genitive singular senatuses.
- The nominative/accusative plural of this noun usually appears as senatus (the nominative singular of the Latin senātus), but is also attested as senatas, using the masculine a-stem Old English nominative/accusative plural.
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “senatus”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[3], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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