FromLatinsenatus.
senatus
- Agoverningbody in certainuniversities.
Fromsenex(“old”) +-ātus; literally, a chamber of elders.
senātus m (genitivesenātūs);fourth declension
- Alternativeletter-case form ofSenatus, theRomanSenate
8CE,
Ovid,
Fasti5.63–64:
- ‘nec nisi post annōs patuit tunc cūriā sērōs,
nōmen et aetātis mītesenātus erat.’- ‘‘Nor then was the Senate-house open [to a citizen] except after [his] latter years, and [the word]Senate [itself] was the mellow name of old age.’’
(The museUrania is speaking. “Senatus,” theRoman Senate, relates to another word that is “aetatis” or “of old age”:senex – i.e., the Senate was a council of elderly men.)
- c. 82C.E.,Arch of Titus:
SENATVS
POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS- TheSenate and the People of Rome
- senate, acouncil ofelders,parliament, orsimilardeliberativebody
Fourth-declension noun.
Note: Old forms of the genitive singular aresenātuis andsenātī.
Some Romance borrowings may be semi-learned.
- “senatus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “senatus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "senatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- senatus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to expel from the senate:e senatu eicere
- to expel from the senate:senatu movere
- to elect to the senate:in senatum legere,eligere
- to call a meeting of the senate:senatum vocare, convocare
- to assemble the senate:senatum cogere (Liv. 3. 39)
- to issue a proclamation calling on the senators to assemble in full force:edicere,ut senatus frequens adsit (Fam. 11. 6. 2)
- to hold a sitting of the senate:senatum habere
- to bring a question before the senate (of the presiding magistrate):ad senatum referre (Cic. Dom. 53. 136)
- to consult the senators on a matter:patres (senatum) consulere de aliqua re (Sall. Iug. 28)
- the senate inclines to the opinion, decides for..:senatus sententia inclīnat ad... (De Sen. 6. 16)
- the senate decreed (and the people ratified the decree) that..:senatus decrevit (populusque iussit) ut
- a resolution of the senate (not opposed by a tribunicial veto) was made:senatus consultum fit (Att. 2. 24. 3)
- the opinion of the senate in general:senatus auctoritas
- to give a man audience before the senate:senatum alicui dare (Q. Fr. 2. 11. 2)
- a matter is referred (for decision) from the senate to the people:a senatu res ad populum reicitur
- to dismiss the senate:dimittere senatum
- night breaks up the sitting:nox senatum dirimit
- the senate decrees to Africanus the honours of a triumph:triumphum senatus Africano decernit (Fin. 4. 9. 22)
- he received from the senate the title of friend:a senatu amicusappellatus est (B. G. 1. 3)
- “senatus”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- senatus inRamminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed))Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “senatus”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Borrowed fromLatinsenātus.
senatus ?
- thesenate ofRome
- late 9th century,translation ofOrosius’History Against the Pagans
Æfter þǣm Centenus Penula sē consul bæd þættesenatus him fultum sealdon, þæt hē mehte Hanibal mid ġefohte ġesēċan.- After that, the consul Centenius Penula asked that theSenate give him aid, so that he could seek to meet Hannibal in battle.
- senator, the senators of Rome as a body
- This word is typically plural, although there is one attestation of a genitive singularsenatuses.
- The nominative/accusative plural of this noun usually appears assenatus (the nominative singular of the Latinsenātus), but is also attested assenatas, using the masculine a-stem Old English nominative/accusative plural.
