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See also: Senectus
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From senex (“old”) -tus (adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /seˈnek.tus/, [s̠ɛˈnɛkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈnek.tus/, [seˈnɛkt̪us]
Adjective
[edit]senectus (feminine senecta, neuter senectum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | senectus | senecta | senectum | senectī | senectae | senecta | |
Genitive | senectī | senectae | senectī | senectōrum | senectārum | senectōrum | |
Dative | senectō | senectō | senectīs | ||||
Accusative | senectum | senectam | senectum | senectōs | senectās | senecta | |
Ablative | senectō | senectā | senectō | senectīs | |||
Vocative | senecte | senecta | senectum | senectī | senectae | senecta |
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From senex (“old”) -tūs (abstract noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /seˈnek.tuːs/, [s̠ɛˈnɛkt̪uːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈnek.tus/, [seˈnɛkt̪us]
Noun
[edit]senectūs f (genitive senectūtis); third declension
- old age, senility
- 1781, C. W. Kindleben, Gaudeamus igitur:
- Post molestam senectutem
- "After a troubling old age"
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | senectūs | senectūtēs |
Genitive | senectūtis | senectūtum |
Dative | senectūtī | senectūtibus |
Accusative | senectūtem | senectūtēs |
Ablative | senectūte | senectūtibus |
Vocative | senectūs | senectūtēs |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “senectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “senectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- senectus 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)
- senectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse
- to live to a very great age: ad summam senectutem pervenire
- old age creeps on us insensibly: senectus nobis obrēpit
- to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse
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- Latin terms suffixed with -tus (adjective)
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- Latin feminine nouns in the third declension
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- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook