seniumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From senex (“old man; aged”) or seneō (“I am weak, feeble”) +‎ -ium.

名詞

senium n (genitive seniī or senī); second declension

1. feebleness of age, decline, debility
2. (rare) old man
3. peevishness, chagrin, mortification, grief

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

名詞

senium

1. (Medieval Latin) genitive plural of senex
   • 1381-1399, John Gower, Vox Clamantis, part II, line 32:

     Aut Roboas? Quoniam senium bona dogmata sprevit / divisum regnum plangit habere suum

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   • 1399, John Gower, Chronica tripartita, part I, line 16:

     stultorum vile sibi consilium iuvenile / legerat, et sectam senium dedit esse reiectam

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

形容詞

senium

1. (New Latin) genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of senex
   • 1605, Giovanni Battista Bernardo, Seminarium totius philosophiae Aristotelicae, Platonicae et stoicae, Book 3, page 23:

     Dentes equorum senium sunt albi

     The teeth of aged horses are white.

   • 1855, Enchiridion medicinae pastoralis..., page 94:

     Noxia est caro animalium senium, macrorum, tempore aestivo praesertim diutius conservata.

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   • 1888, “Apuana Funerum”, in Causae proponendae in congregatione diei 17 decembris 1881, per summaria precum, page 5:

     Cui accedunt testimonia nonnullorum aliorum virorum senium et spectabilium, nempe [...]

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参照

Further reading

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be worn out by old age: senectute, senio confectum esse