senium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.um/, [ˈs̠ɛniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.um/, [ˈsɛːnium]

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).

Related terms

• senex

Etymology 2

From senex (“old”).

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) senium

1. genitive masculine plural of senex
2. genitive feminine plural of senex
3. genitive neuter plural of senex

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse