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

senat (genitive senati, partitive senatit)

1. senate

• senat in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

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

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

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.

• “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 (Cyrillic spelling сѐна̄т)

1. senate

Ultimately from Latin senātus.

senat c

1. senate

• enats, etans, saten, stena