Noun: senatne
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | senatne |
| Accusative | senatni |
| Genitive | senatnes |
| Dative | senatnei |
| Instrumental | senatni |
| Locative | senatnē |
| Vocative | senatne |
Plural
Sample Sentences
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tautas senatne (a people's distant past)
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senatnes pieminekļi (ancient monuments (lit. monuments of antiquity))
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sirma senatne (high (lit. gray) antiquity)
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tālā senatne (distant antiquity)
Nouns inflected like senatne
mobilitāte,
jaunatne,
imbecilitāte,
irealitāte,
pagātne,
senatne,
asinsvadu skleroze,
baltmaize,
heteroseksualitāte,
realitāte,
aseksualitāte,
ārpuse,
etiķskābe,
humanitāte,
ziņkāre,
rupjmaize,
cilvēce,
eksistence,
Vidzeme,
reliģiozitāte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
A 19th-century neologism, from sens (“ancient”) + -atne (or perhaps from the adverb sen, q.v.), coined in 1869 by A. Kronvalds, following the pattern of jauns (“new”), jaunatne (“youth”) (originally “recent times”). Kronvalds also used the word senība in the same sense, which he had either heard from a dialect (it is attested as a dialectal term) or then created independently, following the example of Lithuanian senýbė. Only senatne remained in the standard literary language.
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