senatus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin senatus. === Noun === senatus A governing body in certain universities. ==== Related terms ==== senatus academicus === Anagrams === nasutes, sun teas, unseats == Latin == === Etymology === From senex (“old”, stem sen-) +‎ -ātus (group/rank of officials), literally “group of the elders”. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɛˈnaː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [seˈnaː.tus] === Noun === senātus m (genitive senātūs); fourth declension alternative letter-case form of Senatus, the Roman Senate c. 82 CE, Arch of Titus: senate, a council of elders, parliament, or similar deliberative body ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. Note: Old forms of the genitive singular are senātuis and senātī. ==== Synonyms ==== (governing council): curia, parlamentum (Medieval) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== senātor senātōrius senātrīx senex ==== Descendants ==== Some Romance borrowings may be semi-learned. === 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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), 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 == Old English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin senātus. === Noun === senatus m pl the senate of Rome late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans senator, the senators of Rome as a body ==== Usage notes ==== This word is typically plural, although there is one attestation of a genitive singular senatuses. The nominative/accusative plural of this noun usually appears as senatus (the nominative singular of the Latin senātus), but is also attested as senatas, using the masculine a-stem Old English nominative/accusative plural. ==== Declension ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “senatus”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.