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Latin
Etymology 1
From senex (“old”) + -tus (adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
senectus (feminine senecta, neuter senectum); first/second-declension adjective
- aged, very old
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From senex (“old”) + -tūs (abstract noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
senectūs f (genitive senectūtis); third declension
- old age, senility
- Synonym: senecta
- Antonyms: iuventās, iuventa, iuventūs
1781, C. W. Kindleben, Gaudeamus igitur:Post molestam senectutem- "After a troubling old age"
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “senectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “senectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- senectus 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)
- senectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse
- to live to a very great age: ad summam senectutem pervenire
- old age creeps on us insensibly: senectus nobis obrēpit