senat

See also: Senat, sénat, senát, and Senát

English

Noun

senat (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of senet (ancient board game)

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

senat m (plural senats)

  1. senate

Estonian

Etymology

From German Senat, from Latin senātus (council of elders).

Noun

senat (genitive senati, partitive senatit)

  1. senate

Declension

References

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Further reading

Ladin

Noun

senat m (plural senac)

  1. senate

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian senato, from Latin senatus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

senat m (plural senati)

  1. (politics) senate

Middle French

Noun

senat m (plural senats)

  1. senate

Descendants

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin senatus.

Noun

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

  1. a senate

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin senatus.

Noun

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

  1. a senate

References

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senātus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

senat m inan

  1. senate

Declension

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sénat, from Latin senātus.

Noun

senat n (plural senate)

  1. senate
  2. senate-house

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sénat, Latin senātus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sènāt m (Cyrillic spelling сѐна̄т)

  1. senate

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin senātus.

Noun

senat c

  1. senate

Declension

Declension of senat 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative senat senaten senater senaterna
Genitive senats senatens senaters senaternas

Anagrams

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