senio

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin senium (“feebleness, debility (of old age)”), derived from senex (“old”).

Pronunciation

Noun

senio m (plural seni)

  1. (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

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Latin

Etymology 1

From sēnī (“six each”) +‎ -iō.

Pronunciation

Noun

sēniō m (genitive sēniōnis); third declension

  1. The number six on a die
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sēniō sēniōnēs
Genitive sēniōnis sēniōnum
Dative sēniōnī sēniōnibus
Accusative sēniōnem sēniōnēs
Ablative sēniōne sēniōnibus
Vocative sēniō sēniōnēs

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

  1. dative/ablative singular of senium
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