senatus

English

Etymology

Latin senatus

Noun

senatus

1. A governing body in certain universities.

Anagrams

• nasutes, sun teas, unseats

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Latin

Etymology

From senex (“old”); literally, a chamber of elders.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /seˈnaː.tus/, [s̠ɛˈnäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈna.tus/, [seˈnäːt̪us]

Noun

senātus m (genitive senātūs); fourth declension

1. the senate or parliament; 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!

   • c. 82 C.E. Arch of Titus:

     SENATVS

     POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS

     DIVO·TITO·DIVI·VESPASIANI

Declension

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.

Derived terms

• senāculum
• S. C. (senātus cōnsultum)
• S. P. Q. R., SPQR (Senātus Populusque Rōmānus) – the Senate and the People of Rome

Related terms

• senātor
• senātōrius
• senātrīx
• senex

Descendants

• → English: senate
• Catalan: senat
• → Dutch: senaat
• → Finnish: senaatti
• French: sénat
• → German: Senat
• Italian: senato
• Norwegian Bokmål: senat

• Norwegian Nynorsk: senat
• Portuguese: senado
• Romanian: senat
• → Russian: сена́т (senát)
• Spanish: senado
• → Swedish: senat
• → Welsh: senedd
• → Czech: senát

References

• “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)
    
• “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