senator
English
Alternative forms
- senatour (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.ə.tə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.ə.tɚ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: sen‧a‧tor
Noun
senator (plural senators)
- A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada.
- 2003, Olga Gardner Galvin, The Alphabet Challenge, Page 31
- It was disbanded when Derrick was only six, after that grouchy old ultra-Libertarian Senator Timothy de Illy made “welfare hotel for Third-World nations” a household catchphrase.
- 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 78:
- I was a United States senator-elect at age thirty.
- 2003, Olga Gardner Galvin, The Alphabet Challenge, Page 31
- (dated) A member of any legislative body or parliament, particularly the British Parliament.
- (historical) A member of the ancient Roman Senate.
- (historical) A member of a governing council in other states in the ancient world.
- A member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman.[1]
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
- (obsolete) An important church official.
Coordinate terms
Translations
member in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate
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historic: position in government of ancient Rome
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References
- Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851) “SENATOR”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volumes (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.
- “senator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: se‧na‧tor
Related terms
- senaat
- senatoriaal
Descendants
- → Indonesian: senator
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se.ˈna.tɔr/
- Rhymes: -tɔr
- Hyphenation: se‧na‧tor
Noun
senator (plural senator-senator, first-person possessive senatorku, second-person possessive senatormu, third-person possessive senatornya)
- senator:
- (government) a member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada.
- (historical) a member of the ancient Roman Senate.
- (historical) a member of a governing council in other states in the ancient world.
- a member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman.
Further reading
- “senator” 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.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /seˈnaː.tor/, [s̠ɛˈnäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈna.tor/, [seˈnäːt̪or]
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | senātor | senātōrēs |
Genitive | senātōris | senātōrum |
Dative | senātōrī | senātōribus |
Accusative | senātōrem | senātōrēs |
Ablative | senātōre | senātōribus |
Vocative | senātor | senātōrēs |
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: senator
- French: sénateur
- → Romanian: senator
- → Turkish: senatör
- Galician: senador
- Irish: seanadóir
- Italian: senatore
- Middle Iranian: (As title of Roman politicians)
- Inscriptional Parthian script: 𐭎𐭀𐭍𐭕𐭅𐭓 (sʾntwr /sāntūr/)
- Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭮𐭠𐭭𐭲𐭥𐭥 (sʾntwr /sāntōr/)
- Norman: sénateu
- Portuguese: senador
- Russian: сена́тор (senátor)
- Sicilian: sinaturi
- Spanish: senador
- Welsh: henadur
References
- “senator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “senator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- senator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
senator m (definite singular senatoren, indefinite plural senatorer, definite plural senatorene)
Related terms
References
- “senator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
senator m (definite singular senatoren, indefinite plural senatorar, definite plural senatorane)
Related terms
References
- “senator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛˈna.tɔr/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -atɔr
- Syllabification: se‧na‧tor
Noun
senator m pers (female equivalent senatorka, related adjective senatorski)
- (government, politics) senator (a member in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate)
- Hypernym: parlamentarzysta
- (government, historical) senator (a member of an assembly of higher secular and clerical officials in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
- (government) senator (a member of a local parliament in each of the states of the United States of America)
- (Ancient Rome, government, historical) senator (a member of the Roman Senate)
- (government) senator (a member of a city council in some cities)
- (education) senator (a member of a college made up of the rector, vice-rectors, deans, and representatives of academic staff, students, and administrative staff, holding leadership positions at a university)
- (zoology) older and strong male in a group of baboons
Declension
Declension of senator
Derived terms
nouns
- senatorostwo
- senatorstwo
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From sènāt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sěnaːtor/
- Hyphenation: se‧na‧tor
Declension
References
- “senator” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish
Declension
Declension of senator | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | senator | senatorn | senatorer | senatorerna |
Genitive | senators | senatorns | senatorers | senatorernas |
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