septuagenarius

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Latin

Etymology

From septuāgēnus (70 each) +‎ -ārius (-ary), from septuāgintā (seven tens, 70).

Adjective

septuāgēnārius (feminine septuāgēnāria, neuter septuāgēnārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Of or related to the number seventy.
  2. Containing seventy of something.
  3. Of or related to a person in their seventies.
    homo septuagenarius
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    a seventy-year-old man

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

Noun

septuāgēnārius m (genitive septuāgēnāriī or septuāgēnārī); second declension

  1. A person in their seventies

Declension

Second-declension noun.

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

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