sénat

See also: senat, Senat, senát, and Senát

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin senātūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.na/

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Noun

sénat m (plural sénats)

1. senate
   • 2005, Star Wars, épisode III : La Revanche des Sith, spoken by Palpatine (Georges Claisse):

     C’est moi le sénat !

     I am the Senate!

Derived terms

• sénateur

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: sena
• → Persian: سنا (senâ)
• → Romanian: senat
• → Serbo-Croatian: senat / сенат

Further reading

• “sénat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• entas, santé, séant

Sundanese

Etymology

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

Noun

sénat (Sundanese script ᮞᮦᮔᮒ᮪)

1. senate