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Italian
Etymology
From Latin senium (“feebleness, debility (of old age)”), derived from senex (“old”).
Pronunciation
Noun
senio m (plural seni)
- (obsolete, literary) old age, oldness, decrepitude
- Synonyms: anzianità, decrepità, vecchiaia, vecchiezza
- Antonyms: gioventù, giovinezza
c. 1307, Dante Alighieri, “Trattato quarto [Fourth Treatise]”, in Convivio [The Banquet], Florence: Le Monnier, published 1964, Chapter XXIII:La prima è Adolescenza, che s’appropria al caldo e a l’umido; la seconda si è Gioventute, che s’appropria al caldo e al secco; la terza si è Senettute, che s’appropria al freddo e al secco; la quarta si è Senio, che s’appropria al freddo e a l’umido- The first is Adolescence, akin to hot and damp ; the second is Youth, akin to hot and dry; the third is Senectitude, akin to cold and dry; the fourth one is Oldness, akin to cold and damp
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
From sēnī (“six each”) + -iō.
Pronunciation
Noun
sēniō m (genitive sēniōnis); third declension
- The number six on a die
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “senio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- senio 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)
- senio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse
- “senio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Noun
seniō
- dative/ablative singular of senium