mandat

See also: Mandat, mandát, and mandât

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mandātum.

Pronunciation

Noun

mandat m (plural mandats)

  1. writ, warrant, order
  2. mandate
  3. (law) power of attorney
  4. (political science) term

Derived terms

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mandātum, from mandō (put in one's hands, command), from Proto-Indo-European *man- (hand) + *dʰeh₁- (put).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑ̃.da/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: man‧dat

Noun

mandat m (plural mandats)

  1. mandate
  2. postal order, money order
  3. (law) power of attorney, proxy
  4. (police) warrant
  5. term (of office)
    • 1852, Constitution faite en vertu des pouvoirs délégués par le Peuple français à Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte Par le vote des 20 et 21 décembre 1851 [Constitution Made by Virtue of the Powers Delegated by the French People to Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte by the Vote of 20 and 21 December 1851], Paris: Imprimerie Schneider, page 21:
      Si le président de la République meurt avant l’expiration de son mandat, le Sénat convoque la Nation pour procéder à une nouvelle élection.
      If the President of the Republic dies prior to the expiry of his term, the Senate [shall] convoke the Nation for carrying out a new election.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Ottoman Turkish: ماندا (manda)

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Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch mandaat, from French mandat, from Latin mandātum, from mandō (put in one's hands, command), from Proto-Indo-European *man- (hand) + *dʰeh₁- (put).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmandat̚]
  • Hyphenation: man‧dat

Noun

mandat (first-person possessive mandatku, second-person possessive mandatmu, third-person possessive mandatnya)

  1. mandate

Derived terms

  • memandati
  • mandataris

Further reading

Ladin

Noun

mandat m (plural mandac)

  1. mandate

Latin

Verb

mandat

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of mandō

Malay

Noun

mandat (Jawi spelling مندت, plural mandat-mandat, informal 1st possessive mandatku, 2nd possessive mandatmu, 3rd possessive mandatnya)

  1. mandate

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mandat, from Latin mandātum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈman.dat/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -andat
  • Syllabification: man‧dat

Noun

mandat m inan (diminutive mandacik)

  1. (law) ticket, fine (document prepared by the police compelling the recipient to pay a fine for a misdemeanor or a traffic violation)
    Właśnie dostałem mandat za złe parkowanie.
    I've just received a bad parking ticket.
  2. (politics) seat (membership in an elected representative body, such as the parliament)
    W ostatnich wyborach nasza partia zdobyła dwadzieścia mandatów.
    In the last election our party won twenty seats.
  3. (politics, rare, singular only) mandate (authority granted by the electorate)
    Rząd otrzymał silny mandat do zreformowania systemu opieki zdrowotnej.
    The government has received a strong mandate to reform the healthcare system.

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
  • mandatowy
nouns
  • mandatariusz
  • mandatariuszka
verbs
adjective
  • mandatariuszowski

Further reading

  • mandat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mandat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mandat.

Noun

mandat n (plural mandate)

  1. mandate

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mǎndaːt/
  • Hyphenation: man‧dat

Noun

màndāt m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀нда̄т)

  1. mandate
  2. term (of office)

Declension

Swedish

Noun

mandat n

  1. mandate

Declension

Declension of mandat 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mandat mandatet mandat mandaten
Genitive mandats mandatets mandats mandatens

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