# senat
## English
### Noun

senat (uncountable)
* Alternative form of senet (“ancient board game”)

### Anagrams

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

## Catalan
### Noun

senat m (plural senats)
* senate

#### Related terms

* senador

## Estonian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsenɑt/, [ˈsenɑtˑ]
* Rhymes: -enɑt
* Hyphenation: se‧nat

### Noun

senat (genitive senati, partitive senatit)
* (politics) senate (the upper house of a bicameral parliament in several countries)
* senate (a collegial decision-making body in some universities)
* (historical) Senate (in ancient Rome, a council of family elders or a higher council of state)
* (historical) Senate (in Russia, initially the legislative and governing body of the state, later the supervisory body of the judiciary.)

#### Derived terms

* senaator

### References

* 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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsɛnat̪̚]
* Hyphenation: sè‧nat
* Rhymes: -at

### Noun

senat (uncountable)
* senate:
** (government) the upper house or chamber in some bicameral legislative systems.
** 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.

#### Related terms

* senator
* senior

### Further reading

* “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.

## Ladin
### Noun

senat m (plural senac)
* senate

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian senato, from Latin senatus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛˈnaːt/
* Homophone: sengħat (except archaically)

### Noun

senat m (plural senati)
* (politics) senate

## Middle French
### Noun

senat m (plural senats)
* senate

#### Descendants

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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin senatus.

### Noun

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

#### Related terms

* senator

### References

* “senat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin senatus.

### Noun

senat n (definite singular senatet, indefinite plural senat, definite plural senata)
* a senate

#### Related terms

* senator

### References

* “senat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin senātus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛ.nat/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnat
* Syllabification: se‧nat
* Homophone: Senat

### Noun

senat m inan (related adjective senacki)
* (government) senate (upper house of a bicameral parliament)
    Coordinate term: sejm
    Hypernym: parlament
** upper house (total number of people who sit in the upper house of a parliament)
** upper house (building of the upper house of a parliament)
* (government, historical) senate (assembly of higher secular and clerical officials in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
    Hypernym: zgromadzenie
** (historical) senate (total number of people who sit in a senate in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
* (government) senate (local parliament in each of the states of the United States of America)
* (government) senate (city council in some cities)
* (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)
* (law) senate (court of higher instance in the judicial system of some countries)

#### Derived terms

* Senat

#### Related terms

* senatorski
* senator
* senatoria
* senatorka
* senatorostwo
* senatorstwo

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sénat, from Latin senātus.

### Noun

senat n (plural senate)
* senate
* senate-house

#### Related terms

* senator

#### See also

* parlament

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sénat, Latin senātus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sěnaːt/
* Hyphenation: se‧nat

### Noun

sènāt m (Cyrillic spelling сѐна̄т)
* senate

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin senātus.

### Noun

senat c
* senate

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | senat | senats |
| singular | definite | senaten | senatens |
| plural | indefinite | senater | senaters |
| plural | definite | senaterna | senaternas |

### Anagrams

* enats, etans, saten, stena