See senex in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "senex amans"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "senex iratus"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "sené"
},
"expansion": "Old French: sené",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old French: sené"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Borrowings:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "senex",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: senex",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: senex"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "sene",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: sene",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: sene"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "VL.",
"2": "*senicus"
},
"expansion": "Vulgar Latin: *senicus",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Vulgar Latin: *senicus"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "rup",
"2": "sinrecu"
},
"expansion": "Aromanian: sinrecu",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Aromanian: sinrecu"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nap",
"2": "sanice"
},
"expansion": "Neapolitan: sanice",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "Old Abruzzese"
},
"expansion": "(Old Abruzzese)",
"name": "qualifier"
}
],
"text": "Neapolitan: sanice (Old Abruzzese)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "oc",
"2": "senec",
"3": "sanec"
},
"expansion": "Occitan: senec, sanec",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Occitan: senec, sanec"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "roa-oit",
"2": "senici"
},
"expansion": "Old Italian: senici",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old Italian: senici"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "sânec",
"3": "sinec"
},
"expansion": "Romanian: sânec, sinec",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Romanian: sânec, sinec"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "sénos"
},
"expansion": "PIE word\n *sénos",
"name": "PIE word"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*seneks",
"4": ""
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *seneks",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sénos",
"4": "",
"5": "old"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lt",
"2": "senis",
"3": "",
"4": "old man"
},
"expansion": "Lithuanian senis (“old man”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἕνος"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἕνος (hénos)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sga",
"2": "sen"
},
"expansion": "Old Irish sen",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cel-bry-pro",
"2": "*hen"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Brythonic *hen",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ae",
"2": "𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬀",
"3": "",
"4": "old"
},
"expansion": "Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬀 (hana, “old”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "सन",
"tr": "sána"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit सन (sána)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (sineigs)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "PIE word\n *sénos\nFrom Proto-Italic *seneks, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”). Sihler holds the former inflection to be a consonant stem *sē, senis, with some remodeled endings taken from the antonym iuvenis; others propose an o-stem *senos (but this leaves the remade nominative singular less clearly motivated).\nNonetheless, the apparent discrepancy between the nominative senex and the oblique root sen- may reflect a Proto-Italic root *seneɣ-, which in Old Latin would yield senex in the nominative and *seneh- (later contracted to sen-) in the oblique. Cognates include Lithuanian senis (“old man”), Ancient Greek ἕνος (hénos), Old Irish sen, Proto-Brythonic *hen, Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬀 (hana, “old”), Sanskrit सन (sána) and Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (sineigs).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "senis",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "senex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "senis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "senī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "senem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sene",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "senex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "senēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "senex/sen<3>",
"g": "m",
"g2": "f"
},
"expansion": "senex m or f (genitive senis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "senex/sen<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "iuvenis"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "42 35 10 13",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Age",
"orig": "la:Age",
"parents": [
"Human",
"Time",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…] I thoroughly despise that army composed of desperate old men, of clownish profligates, and uneducated spendthrifts; of those who have preferred to desert their bail rather than that army",
"ref": "; speech 2, section 5",
"text": "[…] magno opere contemno, conlectum ex senibus desperatis, ex agresti luxuria, ex rusticis decoctoribus, ex eis qui vadimonia deserere quam illum exercitum maluerunt;"
},
{
"english": "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:",
"ref": "Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 2:28:",
"text": "et erit post haec effundam spiritum meum super omnem carnem et prophetabunt filii vestri et filiae vestrae senes vestri somnia somniabunt et iuvenes vestri visiones videbunt",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"old man, older man (typically age 40 or older; older than a iuvenis)"
],
"id": "en-senex-la-noun-DK9p7V7B",
"links": [
[
"old man",
"old man"
],
[
"older",
"older"
],
[
"man",
"man"
],
[
"iuvenis",
"iuvenis#Latin"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "seneciō"
},
{
"word": "veglō"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "iuvenis"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "10 18 43 29",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin masculine nouns in the third declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 35 10 13",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Age",
"orig": "la:Age",
"parents": [
"Human",
"Time",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"old person, older person"
],
"id": "en-senex-la-noun-v4PTt~h6",
"links": [
[
"old",
"old"
],
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"older",
"older"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "6 11 26 57",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 15 28 34",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin third declension adjectives of one termination",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 35 10 13",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Age",
"orig": "la:Age",
"parents": [
"Human",
"Time",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 12 0 83",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "People",
"orig": "la:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "Albius Tibullus, Elegiae 1.6.82",
"roman": "Spectat et, infidis quam sit acerba, monet.",
"text": "At quae fida fuit nulli, post victa senecta\nducit inops tremula stamina torta manu\nfirmaque conductis adnectit licia telis\ntractaque de niveo vellere ducta putat.\nHanc animo gaudente vident iuvenumque catervae\nConmemorant merito tot mala ferre senem,\nHanc Venus exalto flentem sublimis Olympo"
}
],
"glosses": [
"as feminine old woman, older woman"
],
"id": "en-senex-la-noun-UXNeQiwf",
"links": [
[
"old woman",
"old woman"
],
[
"older",
"older"
],
[
"woman",
"woman"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncommon) as feminine old woman, older woman"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "anus"
},
{
"word": "anicula"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"uncommon"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈse.neks/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈs̠ɛnɛks̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈse.neks/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈsɛːneks]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "senex"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "sené"
},
"expansion": "Old French: sené",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Old French: sené"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "sené"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: sené",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: sené"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sc",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Sardinian:",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Sardinian:"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sc-src",
"2": "seneghe",
"alt": "sèneghe"
},
"expansion": "Logudorese: sèneghe",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Logudorese: sèneghe"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sc-nuo",
"2": "seneche",
"alt": "sèneche"
},
"expansion": "Nuorese: sèneche",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Nuorese: sèneche"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "sénos"
},
"expansion": "PIE word\n *sénos",
"name": "PIE word"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*seneks",
"4": ""
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *seneks",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*sénos",
"4": "",
"5": "old"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "lt",
"2": "senis",
"3": "",
"4": "old man"
},
"expansion": "Lithuanian senis (“old man”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἕνος"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἕνος (hénos)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sga",
"2": "sen"
},
"expansion": "Old Irish sen",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cel-bry-pro",
"2": "*hen"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Brythonic *hen",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ae",
"2": "𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬀",
"3": "",
"4": "old"
},
"expansion": "Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬀 (hana, “old”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "सन",
"tr": "sána"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit सन (sána)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (sineigs)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "PIE word\n *sénos\nFrom Proto-Italic *seneks, from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”). Sihler holds the former inflection to be a consonant stem *sē, senis, with some remodeled endings taken from the antonym iuvenis; others propose an o-stem *senos (but this leaves the remade nominative singular less clearly motivated).\nNonetheless, the apparent discrepancy between the nominative senex and the oblique root sen- may reflect a Proto-Italic root *seneɣ-, which in Old Latin would yield senex in the nominative and *seneh- (later contracted to sen-) in the oblique. Cognates include Lithuanian senis (“old man”), Ancient Greek ἕνος (hénos), Old Irish sen, Proto-Brythonic *hen, Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬀 (hana, “old”), Sanskrit सन (sána) and Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (sineigs).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "senis",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "senior",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-adecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "senex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"genitive",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sene",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "senex",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "senēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "senex/sen<3-1+.-I>",
"comp": "senior"
},
"expansion": "senex (genitive senis, comparative senior); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)",
"name": "la-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "senex/sen<3-1+.-I>",
"noneut": "1"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "iuvenis"
},
{
"word": "novus"
},
{
"word": "novellus"
},
{
"word": "recēns"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "42 22 27 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "42 35 10 13",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Age",
"orig": "la:Age",
"parents": [
"Human",
"Time",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "senāculum"
},
{
"word": "senātor"
},
{
"word": "senātōrius"
},
{
"word": "senātrīx"
},
{
"word": "senātus"
},
{
"word": "seneciō"
},
{
"word": "senectus"
},
{
"word": "seneō"
},
{
"word": "senēscō"
},
{
"word": "seniculus"
},
{
"word": "senīlis"
},
{
"word": "senīliter"
},
{
"word": "senium"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel;",
"ref": "Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 2:22:",
"text": "Heli autem erat senex valde et audivit omnia quae faciebant filii sui universo Israheli",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"old, aged, elderly"
],
"id": "en-senex-la-adj-Um~zYR3f",
"links": [
[
"old",
"old"
],
[
"aged",
"aged"
],
[
"elderly",
"elderly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually of a person) old, aged, elderly"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a person"
],
"related": [
{
"word": "senior"
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"word": "antīquus"
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"english": "[…] I thoroughly despise that army composed of desperate old men, of clownish profligates, and uneducated spendthrifts; of those who have preferred to desert their bail rather than that army",
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"text": "[…] magno opere contemno, conlectum ex senibus desperatis, ex agresti luxuria, ex rusticis decoctoribus, ex eis qui vadimonia deserere quam illum exercitum maluerunt;"
},
{
"english": "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:",
"ref": "Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 2:28:",
"text": "et erit post haec effundam spiritum meum super omnem carnem et prophetabunt filii vestri et filiae vestrae senes vestri somnia somniabunt et iuvenes vestri visiones videbunt",
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{
"ref": "Albius Tibullus, Elegiae 1.6.82",
"roman": "Spectat et, infidis quam sit acerba, monet.",
"text": "At quae fida fuit nulli, post victa senecta\nducit inops tremula stamina torta manu\nfirmaque conductis adnectit licia telis\ntractaque de niveo vellere ducta putat.\nHanc animo gaudente vident iuvenumque catervae\nConmemorant merito tot mala ferre senem,\nHanc Venus exalto flentem sublimis Olympo"
}
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{
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"english": "Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel;",
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"text": "Heli autem erat senex valde et audivit omnia quae faciebant filii sui universo Israheli",
"type": "quote"
}
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[
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually of a person) old, aged, elderly"
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a person"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "grandaevus"
},
{
"word": "senectus"
},
{
"word": "vetus"
},
{
"word": "vetulus"
},
{
"word": "vetustus"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"one-termination",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈse.neks/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈs̠ɛnɛks̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈse.neks/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈsɛːneks]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "senex"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
"msg": "unrecognized head form: non-i-stem",
"path": [
"senex"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "senex",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/20250113b",
"msg": "Rowspan 999 over 30, set to 1",
"path": [
"senex"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "senex",
"trace": ""
}
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