senio

See also: Senio

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.njo/
• Rhymes: -ɛnjo
• Hyphenation: sè‧nio

Noun

senio m (plural seni)

1. (obsolete, literary) old age, oldness, decrepitude

   Synonyms: anzianità, decrepità, vecchiaia, vecchiezza

   Antonyms: gioventù, giovinezza

   • 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

Related terms

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

Anagrams

• Esino, esoni, noesi, sì e no

Latin

Latin numbers ^(edit)

←  5	VI 6
Cardinal: sex     Ordinal: sextus     Adverbial: sexiēs, sexiēns, sextō     Proportional: sexuplus, sextuplus, sexcuplus     Multiplier: sexuplex, sextuplex, sexcuplex, sēplex, secuplex     Distributive: sēnus     Collective: sēniō     Fractional: sextāns

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin sēnus

Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.

Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?

Latin -ō

Latin -iō

Latin sēniō

From sēnus (“six each”) + -iō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈseː.ni.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.ni.o]

Noun

sēniō m (genitive sēniōnis); third declension

1. (dice games) The number six on a die

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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, 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): [ˈsɛ.ni.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.ni.o]

Noun

seniō

1. dative/ablative singular of senium