senio

See also: Senio

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.njo/, [ˈs̪ɛːn̺jo]
• Hyphenation: sè‧nio

Noun

senio m (plural senî)

1. (obsolete, literary) old age, oldness, decrepitude
   • c. 1307, Dante Alighieri, “Trattato quarto [Fourth Treatise]”, in Convivio [The Banquet]‎^[1], 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 [age] is Adolescence, akin to hot and damp [weather]; 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

   • Synonyms: anzianità, decrepità, vecchiaia, vecchiezza
   • Antonyms: gioventù, giovinezza

Related terms

• senato
• senatorato
• senatore
• senatoriale
• senatorio
• sene
• senescente
• senescenza
• senetta
• senettute
• senile
• senilismo
• senilità
• senilizzazione
• signore

 

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Latin

Etymology 1

Derived from sēnī (“six each”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.ni.oː/, [ˈs̠eːnioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.o/, [ˈsɛːnio]

Noun

sēniō f (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^[2], 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.oː/, [ˈs̠ɛnioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.o/, [ˈsɛːnio]

Noun

(deprecated template usage) seniō

1. dative singular of senium
2. ablative singular of senium