Stadtrat German · revision 36184

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * [ˈʃtatˌʁaːt]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''Stadtrat''' ''m'' (genitive Stadtrates or Stadtrats, plural Stadträte)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound [[af|de|Stadt|Rat]], “town” and “council”.^(Wiktionary)^(Wiktionary DE) The compound already existed in Middle High German as [[m|gmh|statrāt|t=town council, meeting of the town council]].^(Köbler MHD)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Middle High German ''statrāt'' meant both the town council and a meeting of it.^(Köbler MHD) The Grimms' dictionary distinguishes three uses: the act of holding council for the good of the town, the body that holds such deliberations, and a single member of that body.^(DWB|17, 491)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Early modern dictionaries record the word for the town's governing body: Stieler (1691) glosses it with Latin ''magistratus oppidanus'' and ''senatus civium'' is the gloss in Frisch.^(DWB|17, 491) Schiller and Freytag use it for the councils of late medieval towns, and Brentano for an individual councillor.^(DWB|17, 491) In modern German it is both the elected representative body and executive organ of a town and the title of one of its members.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Middle High German – ''statrāt'' “town council” is recorded.^(Köbler MHD)

+ * 1691 – Stieler's dictionary lists ''stadtraht'' for the town magistracy and for a single councillor.^(DWB|17, 491)

+ * 1702 – Kramer's German–Italian dictionary renders it as ''senato cittadino''.^(DWB|17, 491)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The town or city [[m|en|council]], the elected representative body and highest executive organ of a town.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|councillor]], a member of a town council (feminine [[Stadträtin]]).^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[Stadträtin]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[Stadt]]

+ * [[Rat]]

+ * [[Gemeinderat]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}