Noun: staat
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like staat
surrogaat,
senaat,
voetsoldaat,
episcopaat,
vernevelapparaat,
zeesoldaat,
markiezaat,
optimaat,
granulaat,
ftalaat,
vertrekstaat,
honingraat,
antiquariaat,
baccalaureaat,
cyclosilicaat,
vertebraat,
dorpsstraat,
satellietstaat,
narcostaat,
ledemaat, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch staet, from Latin status. The sense for a political entity derives from Middle French état, from Old French estat, from the Latin. The sense "plantation" is a semantic loan from English estate. See: Latin Nouns '
status'.
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