different between senatus vs senate

English

Etymology

From Latin senatus.

Noun

senatus

1. A governing body in certain universities.

Anagrams

• nasutes, sun teas, unseats

Latin

Etymology

From senex (“old”) +? -?tus; literally, a chamber of elders.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /se?na?.tus/, [s???nä?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /se?na.tus/, [s??n??t?us]

Noun

sen?tus m (genitive sen?t?s); fourth declension

1. the senate or parliament; the Roman Senate
   • c. 82 C.E., Arch of Titus:

     SENATVS

     POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS

     The Senate and the People of Rome

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Note: Old forms of the genitive singular are sen?tuis and sen?t?.

Derived terms

• sen?culum
• S. C. (sen?t?s c?nsultum)
• S. C. U. (sen?t?s c?nsultum ultimum)
• S. P. Q. R., SPQR (Sen?tus Populusque R?m?nus) – the Senate and the People of Rome

Related terms

• sen?tor
• sen?t?rius
• sen?tr?x
• senex

Descendants

References

• senatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• senatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• senatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• senatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• senatus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• senatus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• senatus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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.

Related terms

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