senium

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From seneō (I am weak, feeble).

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).

Case 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

From senex (old).

Adjective

senium

  1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of senex

Noun

senium

  1. genitive plural of senex

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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