Latin

mulier senex (old woman)

Adjective

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1. (usually of a person) old, aged
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Samuelis I 2:22

     Heli autem erat senex valde et audivit omnia quae faciebant filii sui universo Israheli

     Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel;

Inflection

Third declension.

• comparative: senior, superlative: senissimus

Synonyms

• (old): grandaevus, senectus, vetulus, vetus

Antonyms

• (old): iuvenis

Derived terms

See also

• antīquus

Noun

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1. old person, old man
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here); speech 2, section 5

     […] magno opere contemno, conlectum ex senibus desperatis, ex agresti luxuria, ex rusticis decoctoribus, ex eis qui vadimonia deserere quam illum exercitum maluerunt;

     […] 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

   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Ioel 2:28

     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

     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:

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (old man): seneciō, veglō (Mediaeval)

Antonyms

• (old person): iuvenis

Descendants

• Old French: sené
• Italian: sene

References

• senex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• senex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SENEX in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “senex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • still quote a young (old) man: admodum adulescens, senex