senat

senat (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of senet (“ancient board game”).

• Antes, Teans, Tenas, antes, etnas, nates, neats, netas, stane, stean

senat m (plural senats)

1. senate

• senador

From Latin senatus.

senat n (singular definite senatet, plural indefinite senater)

1. a senate

• senator
• senatsvalg

• “senat” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

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

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 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

• 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

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

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

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

• “senat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

senat m (plural senac)

1. senate

Borrowed from Italian senato, from Latin senatus.

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈnaːt/
• Homophone: sengħat (except archaically)

senat m (plural senati)

1. (politics) senate

senat m (plural senats)

1. senate

• French: sénat (see there for further descendants)
• → Dutch: senaat
  • Afrikaans: senaat
  • → Indonesian: senat
• → Middle English: senat
  • English: senate
    • → Swahili: seneti

From Latin senatus.

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

1. a senate

• senator

• “senat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin senatus.

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

1. a senate

• senator

• “senat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin senātus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.nat/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnat
• Syllabification: se‧nat
• Homophone: Senat

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)

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

Borrowed from French sénat, from Latin senātus.

senat n (plural senate)

1. senate
2. senate-house

• senator

• parlament

Borrowed from French sénat, Latin senātus.

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

sènāt m inan (Cyrillic spelling сѐна̄т)

1. senate

Ultimately from Latin senātus.

senat c

1. senate

• enats, etans, saten, stena