senatorius Latin · revision 31119

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *sen-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sɛ.naːˈtoː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [se.naˈtɔː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''senātōrius''' (feminine senātōria, neuter senātōrium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|senātor|t=senator]] with the suffix [[m|la|-ius]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ⟨Senātor⟩ belongs to [[m|la|senātus|t=senate]] and ultimately to [[m|la|senex|t=old man]],^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*seno-|t=old]] and [[ine-pro|*sen-o-|t=old]], cognate with [[sga|sen|t=old]], [[sa|सन|tr=sána-|t=old]] and [[lt|sẽnas|t=old]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Cicero as its first author,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of a man whose age was far from “senatorial rank” (''senātōrius gradus'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is “of or proper to a senator”, as the ''ōrdō senātōrius'', the senatorial order, in Cicero, Caesar and Sallust.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The masculine is used as a noun for a man of senatorial rank, as in the letters to Caesar ascribed to Sallust: “nobles with a few senators did whatever they pleased”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ In Church Latin the masculine noun is a senator and the neuter a reserved section.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of senatorial rank.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of the senatorial order.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a [[m|en|senator]], [[m|en|senatorial]], ''ōrdō senātōrius'', the senatorial order.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(masculine)'' A man of senatorial rank.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin, neuter)'' A reserved section.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[senātor]]

+ * [[senātrīx]]

+ * [[senātus]]

+ * [[senex]]

+ * [[en|senatorial]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}