senium

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From seneō (“I am weak, feeble”) +‎ -ium.

Noun

senium n (genitive seniī or senī); second declension

  1. feebleness of age, decline, debility
  2. (rare) old man
  3. peevishness, chagrin, mortification, grief
Declension

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).

Etymology 2

Adjective

senium

  1. 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.
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    • 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 [...]
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References

  • “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse
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