The Senate of the Roman Kingdom was a political

The Senate of the Roman Kingdom was a political institution in the ancient Roman Kingdom. The word senate derives from the Latin word senex, which means "old man"; the word thus means "assembly of elders". The prehistoric Indo-Europeans who settled Italy in the centuries before the legendary founding of Rome in 753 BC[2] were structured into tribal communities,[3] and these communities often included an aristocratic board of tribal elders.[4] The early Roman family was called a gens or "clan",[3] and each clan was an aggregation of families under a common living male patriarch, called a pater (the Latin word for "father").[5] When the early Roman gentes were aggregating to form a common community, the patres from the leading clans were selected[6] for the confederated board of elders (what would become the Roman Senate).[5] Over time, the patres came to recognize the need for a single leader, and so they elected a king (rex),[5] and vested in him their sovereign power.[7] When the king died, that sovereign power naturally reverted back to the patres.[5]



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