different between senate vs enate

English

Etymology

From Middle English senat, from Old French senat, from Latin sen?tus (“council of elders; a senate”), from senex (“old”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?s?n?t/, /?s?n?t/
• Rhymes: -?n?t

Noun

senate (plural senates)

1. In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.
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.
   • 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 11, stanza 13, lines 4338-9,

     Before the Tyrant's throne

     All night his aged Senate sate.

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Translations

References

• senate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “senate” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• Santee, atenes, enates, ensate, sateen, tenase

English

Etymology

From Latin ?n?tus.

Noun

enate (plural enates)

1. A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.

   A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.

   • 2000, Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland: The Activation of Matriliny Among the Sursurunga, page 86,

     Similarly, since the wearing of a sawat is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group membership is necessarily salient in explaining the behavior of a social actor.

2. Any maternal female relative.

Antonyms

• agnate

Adjective

enate (comparative more enate, superlative most enate)

1. Related to someone by female connections.
2. Related on the maternal side of the family.
3. (linguistics) Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
4. Growing out.

Synonyms

• enatic

Coordinate terms

• agnate (also linguistics)

Translations

Anagrams

• atene, eaten

Latin

Participle

?n?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?n?tus