senator

See also: Senator and senátor

English

Alternative forms

• senatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”), equivalent to senate +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.ə.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.ə.tɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sen‧a‧tor

Noun

senator (plural senators)

1. A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada.
   • 2003, Olga Gardner Galvin, The Alphabet Challenge, Page 31

     It was disbanded when Derrick was only six, after that grouchy old ultra-Libertarian Senator Timothy de Illy made “welfare hotel for Third-World nations” a household catchphrase.

   • 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep‎^[1], New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 78:

     I was a United States senator-elect at age thirty.

2. (dated) A member of any legislative body or parliament, particularly the British Parliament.
3. (historical) A member of the ancient Roman Senate.
4. (historical) A member of a governing council in other states in the ancient world.
5. A member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
     And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.

6. (obsolete) An important church official.
7. In Germany, a minister of the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; and a government official of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League.

Coordinate terms

• congressman, congresswoman
• MP

Derived terms

• nonsenator
• senatoress
• senatorship

Related terms

• senate
• senatress
• senatrix

Translations

member in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate

• Afrikaans: senator
• Albanian: senator (sq) m
• Arabic: سِنَاتُور m (sinātūr), سِنَاتُورَة f (sinātūra)
• Armenian: սենատոր (hy) (senator)
• Azerbaijani: senator
• Basque: senatari (eu)
• Belarusian: сена́тар m (sjenátar), сена́тарка f (sjenátarka), сэна́тар m (senátar), сэна́тарка f (senátarka)
• Bengali: সিনেটার (śineṭar)
• Bulgarian: сена́тор m (senátor), сена́торка f (senátorka)
• Catalan: senador (ca) m, senadora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 參議員 / 参议员 (zh) (cānyìyuán)

• Czech: senátor (cs) m, senátorka f
• Danish: senator c
• Dutch: senator (nl) m
• Esperanto: senatano, senatanino (female)
• Estonian: senaator
• Finnish: senaattori (fi)
• French: sénateur (fr) m, sénatrice (fr) f
• Galician: senador (gl) m, senadora f
• Georgian: სენატორი (senaṭori)
• German: Senator (de) m, Senatorin (de) f
• Greek: γερουσιαστής (el) m (gerousiastís), γερουσιάστρια (el) f (gerousiástria)
• Hawaiian: kenekoa
• Hebrew: סֵנָטוֹר / סנאטור (he) m (senátor), סנאטורית f (senatorit)
• Hindi: सीनेटर m (sīneṭar)
• Hungarian: szenátor (hu)
• Hunsrik: Sënatoer m
• Icelandic: öldungaráðsmaður m
• Igbo: asogwa, senētọ̄
• Indonesian: senator (id)
• Irish: seanadóir m
• Italian: senatore (it) m, senatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 上院議員 (じょういんぎいん, jōin giin)
• Kazakh: сенатор (senator)
• Korean: 상원의원(上院議員) (sang'wonuiwon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: senator (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сенатор (ky) (senator)
• Latin: senātor m, senātrīx f
• Latvian: senators m
• Lithuanian: senatorius m
• Macedonian: сена́тор m (senátor), сена́торка m (senátorka)
• Malay: senator
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: сенатор (senator), сенатч (mn) (senatč)

• Norman: sénateu m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: senator (no) m

  Nynorsk: senator m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: سِناتور (senâtur)

• Polish: senator (pl) m, senatorka (pl) f
• Portuguese: senador (pt) m, senadora f
• Romanian: senator (ro) m, senatoare f
• Russian: сена́тор (ru) m (senátor) (male or female), сена́торша (ru) f (senátorša) (the feminine form is mostly colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сѐна̄тор m

  Latin: sènātor (sh) m

• Slovak: senátor m, senátorka f
• Slovene: senator (sl) m, senatorka f
• Sotho: mosenate
• Spanish: senador (es) m, senadora f
• Swahili: seneta
• Swedish: senator (sv) c
• Tagalog: senador (tl)
• Tajik: сенатор (senator)
• Thai: สมาชิกวุฒิสภา (th) (sà-maa-chík-wút-tí-sà-paa), วุฒิสมาชิก (th) (wút-tí-sà-maa-chík), ส.ว. (th) (sɔ̌ɔ.wɔɔ.)
• Turkish: senatör (tr)
• Turkmen: senator
• Ukrainian: сена́тор m (senátor), сена́торка f (senátorka)
• Urdu: سِینیٹَر m (sīneṭar)
• Uzbek: senator (uz)
• Vietnamese: nghị sĩ (vi), thượng nghị sĩ (vi)
• Welsh: seneddwr
• Yiddish: סענאַטאָר m (senator)
• Yoruba: aṣòfin-àgbà, sẹ́nétọ̀

historic: position in government of ancient Rome

• Arabic: سِنَاتُور m (sinātūr)
• Belarusian: сена́тар m (sjenátar), сэна́тар m (senátar)
• Bulgarian: сена́тор m (senátor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 元老 (zh) (yuánlǎo)

• Danish: senator c
• Dutch: senator (nl) m
• Esperanto: senatano
• Finnish: senaattori (fi)
• Galician: senador (gl) m
• Georgian: სენატორი (senaṭori)
• Greek: συγκλητικός (el) (sygklitikós)
• Hebrew: סֵנָטוֹר / סנאטור (he) m (senátor)
• Indonesian: senator (id)
• Irish: seanadóir m

  Old Irish: senatóir m

• Latin: senātor m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: senator (no) m

  Nynorsk: senator m

• Parthian: 𐭎𐭀𐭍𐭕𐭅𐭓 (sānatōr [sʾntwr])
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: سِناتور (senâtur)

  Middle Persian: 𐭮𐭠𐭭𐭲𐭥𐭥 (sāntōr)

• Romanian: senator (ro) m
• Russian: сена́тор (ru) m (senátor)
• Slovene: senator (sl) m
• Swedish: senator (sv) c
• Ukrainian: сена́тор m (senátor)

References

• “senator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

• Senate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Santore, anteros, asteron, atoners, nor'-east, nose art, noseart, one-star, orantes, ornates, roneats, rotanes, santero, seatron, tenoras, treason

Danish

Etymology

From Latin senātor.

Noun

senator c (singular definite senatoren, plural indefinite senatorer)

1. (politics) senator

Declension

Declension of senator

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	senator	senatoren	senatorer	senatorerne
genitive	senators	senatorens	senatorers	senatorernes

Related terms

• senat

References

• “senator” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: se‧na‧tor

Noun

senator m (plural senatoren or senators, diminutive senatortje n)

1. (politics) senator

Related terms

• senaat
• senatoriaal

Descendants

• → Indonesian: senator

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch senator, from Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ˈna.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -tɔr
• Hyphenation: se‧na‧tor

Noun

senator (plural senator-senator)

1. senator:
   1. (government) a member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada
   2. (historical) a member of the ancient Roman Senate
   3. (historical) a member of a governing council in other states in the ancient world
   4. a member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman

Related terms

• senat
• senior

Further reading

• “senator”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Ladin

Noun

senator f (plural senatores)

1. (politics) senator

Latin

Etymology

From senātus (“senate”) +‎ -tor, originally from senex (“old”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛˈnaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈnaː.tor]

Noun

senātor m (genitive senātōris, feminine senātrīx); third declension

1. (politics) senator (a member of the Roman Senate)
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 16.56:

     In agrīs erant tum senātōrēs — id est, senēs — siquidem arantī L. Quīnctiō Cincinnātō nūntiātum est eum Dictātōrem esse factum; […] .

     In those days, senators — that is to say, “elders” — lived in the countryside. Indeed, it was while he was plowing that Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus received the news that he had been appointed Dictator.
     (Note the etymology.)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	senātor	senātōrēs
genitive	senātōris	senātōrum
dative	senātōrī	senātōribus
accusative	senātōrem	senātōrēs
ablative	senātōre	senātōribus
vocative	senātor	senātōrēs

Derived terms

• senāculum
• senātōrius
• senātrīx

Related terms

• senātus
• seneciō
• senectus
• seneō
• senex

Descendants

• English: senator
• French: sénateur
  • → Romanian: senator
  • → Turkish: senatör
• Galician: senador
• Irish: seanadóir
• Italian: senatore
• Middle Iranian: (As title of Roman politicians)

  Inscriptional Parthian script: 𐭎𐭀𐭍𐭕𐭅𐭓 (sʾntwr /⁠sāntūr⁠/)

  Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭮𐭠𐭭𐭲𐭥𐭥 (sʾntwr /⁠sāntōr⁠/)

• Norman: sénateu
• Portuguese: senador
• Russian: сена́тор (senátor)
• Sicilian: sinaturi
• Spanish: senador
• Welsh: henadur

References

• “senator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “senator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• senator in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

senator m (definite singular senatoren, indefinite plural senatorer, definite plural senatorene)

1. (politics) senator

Related terms

• senat

References

• “senator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

senator m (definite singular senatoren, indefinite plural senatorar, definite plural senatorane)

1. (politics) senator

Related terms

• senat

References

• “senator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin senātor.

Noun

senator oblique singular, m (oblique plural senators, nominative singular senators, nominative plural senator)

1. senator (in Ancient Rome)

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sénosder.

Proto-Italic *senos

Proto-Italic *seneks

Latin senex

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus, -tūs

Latin -ātus

Latin senātus

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Latin senātorlbor.

Polish senator

Learned borrowing from Latin senātor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈna.tɔr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: se‧na‧tor

Noun

senator m pers (female equivalent senatorka, related adjective senatorski)

1. (government, politics) senator (a member in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate)

   Hypernym: parlamentarzysta

2. (government, historical) senator (a member of an assembly of higher secular and clerical officials in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
3. (government) senator (a member of a local parliament in each of the states of the United States of America)
4. (Ancient Rome, government, historical) senator (a member of the Roman Senate)
5. (government) senator (a member of a city council in some cities)
6. (education) senator (a member of a college made up of the rector, vice-rectors, deans, and representatives of academic staff, students, and administrative staff, holding leadership positions at a university)
7. (zoology) older and strong male in a group of baboons

Declension

Declension of senator

	singular	plural
nominative	senator	senatorzy/senatorowie/senatory (deprecative)
genitive	senatora	senatorów
dative	senatorowi	senatorom
accusative	senatora	senatorów
instrumental	senatorem	senatorami
locative	senatorze	senatorach
vocative	senatorze	senatorzy/senatorowie/senatory (deprecative)

Derived terms

nouns

• senatorostwo
• senatorstwo

Related terms

adjective

• senacki

nouns

• senat
• Senat
• senatoria

Further reading

• “senator”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “senator”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)
• senator in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

From French sénateur, Latin senātor.

Noun

senator m (plural senatori, feminine equivalent senatoare or senatrice)

1. (politics) senator

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	senator	senatorul	senatori	senatorii
genitive-dative	senator	senatorului	senatori	senatorilor
vocative	senatorule		senatorilor

Related terms

• senat

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sènāt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sěnaːtor/
• Hyphenation: se‧na‧tor

Noun

sènātor m anim (Cyrillic spelling сѐна̄тор)

1. (politics) senator

Declension

Declension of senator

	singular	plural
nominative	senator	senatori
genitive	senatora	senatora
dative	senatoru	senatorima
accusative	senatora	senatore
vocative	senatore	senatori
locative	senatoru	senatorima
instrumental	senatorom	senatorima

References

• “senator”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Swedish

Noun

senator c

1. (politics) senator (a member of a senate)

Declension

Declension of senator

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	senator	senators
	definite	senatorn	senatorns
plural	indefinite	senatorer	senatorers
	definite	senatorerna	senatorernas

Anagrams

• noteras, sotaren