senium
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈse.ni.um/, [ˈs̠ɛniʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ni.um/, [ˈsɛːnium]
Etymology 1
[edit]From seneō (“I am weak, feeble”) + -ium.
Noun
[edit]senium n (genitive seniī or senī); second declension
- feebleness of age, decline, debility
- (rare) old man
- peevishness, chagrin, mortification, grief
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | senium | senia |
genitive | seniī senī1 |
seniōrum |
dative | seniō | seniīs |
accusative | senium | senia |
ablative | seniō | seniīs |
vocative | senium | senia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]senium
- genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of senex
- 1605, Giovanni Battista Bernardo, Seminarium totius philosophiae Aristotelicae, Platonicae et stoicae, Book 3, page 23:
- Dentes equorum senium sunt albi
- The teeth of aged horses are white.
- 1855, Enchiridion medicinae pastoralis..., page 94:
- Noxia est caro animalium senium, macrorum, tempore aestivo praesertim diutius conservata.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1888, “Apuana Funerum”, in Causae proponendae in congregatione diei 17 decembris 1881, per summaria precum, page 5:
- Cui accedunt testimonia nonnullorum aliorum virorum senium et spectabilium, nempe [...]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- “senium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “senium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "senium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- senium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse
- (ambiguous) to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse
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