senio

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

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

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]‎, 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

• Esino, esoni, noesi, sì e no

From sēnī (“six each”) +‎ -iō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.ni.oː/, [ˈs̠eːnioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.o/, [ˈsɛːnio]

sēniō m (genitive sēniōnis); third declension

1. The number six on a die

Third-declension noun.

• “senio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• senio 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)
• senio 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
    
• “senio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.oː/, [ˈs̠ɛnioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.o/, [ˈsɛːnio]

seniō

1. dative/ablative singular of senium