senilis Latin · revision 32199

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=ine-pro *sen-(o-)}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sɛˈniː.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [seˈniː.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''senīlis''' (neuter senīle, adverb senīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|senex|-īlis|t1=old, old man]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan notes that it can also come from an older o-stem, as [[m|la|servīlis|t=slavish]] and [[m|la|puerīlis|t=childish]], and traces [[m|la|senex]] to [[itc-pro|*seno-|t=old]] and [[ine-pro|*sen-(o-)|t=old]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|sen|t=old]], [[grc|ἕνος|tr=hénos|t=of last year]] and [[lt|sẽnas|t=old]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is in Naevius' comedy, of an old man handling a worn-out fire-shovel.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means of or proper to an old man, as Cicero's Tages, a boy in appearance but with an old man's wisdom, and his contrast of something old in a young man;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Horace sets the parts of old men against those of men in their prime.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Seneca applies it to a particular old man, as Nestor's Pylos.^(OLD 2012) Of persons and their bodies it means old or aged, as Ovid's old man's cheeks wet with tears and his trembling hands, and of conditions inveterate.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it old, aged, senile.^(Stelten 1995) English ''senile'' (1660s) came through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius of an old man's tool.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of an old man's wisdom.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of an old man's tears.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1660s – English [[m|en|senile]], through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of, proper to or characteristic of an old man.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of persons, old, [[m|en|aged]]; of conditions, [[m|en|inveterate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[persenīlis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[senex]]

+ * [[senectus|alt=senectūs]]

+ * [[en|senile]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}