aetas

Syncope of earlier aevitās, from Proto-Italic *aiwotāts, from *aiwom (whence also aevum) + *-tāts (whence also -tās), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital energy”), from *h₂ey-. Surface etymology: from aevum +‎ -tās.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈae̯.taːs/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.tas/, [ˈɛː.tas]
• Rhymes: -aːs

aetās f (genitive aetātis); third declension

1. lifetime, age, era, period of time or life
2. (metonymically) a generation

Third-declension noun.

• *aetaticum (Vulgar Latin)

• aetātula
• aeternus
• etas (medieval Latin spelling)

• aetas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aetas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aetas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• aetas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the present day: haec tempora, nostra haec aetas, memoria
    
  • in our time; in our days: his temporibus, nostra (hac) aetate, nostra memoria, his (not nostris) diebus
    
  • our generation has seen many victories: nostra aetas multas victorias vidit
    
  • in the time of Pericles: aetate (temporibus) Periclis
    
  • the middle ages: media quae vocatur aetas
    
  • Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles summus vir illius aetatis
    
  • to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere
    
  • to be of such and such an age: ea aetate, id aetatis esse
    
  • from one's entry into civil life: ab ineunte (prima) aetate (De Or. 1. 21. 97)
    
  • the prime of youthful vigour: flos aetatis
    
  • to be in the prime of life: aetate florere, vigere
    
  • to be in the prime of life: integra aetate esse
    
  • with advancing years: aetate progrediente
    
  • with the weight, weakness of declining years: aetate ingravescente
    
  • manhood: aetas constans, media, firmata, corroborata (not virilis)
    
  • having reached man's estate: corroborata, firmata aetate
    
  • to be advanced in years: aetate provectum esse (not aetate provecta)
    
  • to be more advanced in years: longius aetate provectum esse
    
  • to be infirm through old age: aetate affecta esse
    
  • to die at a good old age: exacta aetate mori
    
  • the last stage of life, one's last days: extrema aetas
    
  • the last stage of life, one's last days: extremum tempus aetatis
    
  • to be older than: aetate alicui antecedere, anteire
    
  • how old are you: qua aetate es?
    
  • to be entering on one's tenth year: decimum aetatis annum ingredi
    
  • to be middle-aged (i.e. between thirty and forty): tertiam iam aetatem videre
    
  • to happen during a person's life, year of office: in aetatem alicuius, in annum incidere
    
  • our contemporaries; men of our time: homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae
    
  • later writers: scriptores aetate posteriores or inferiores
    
  • to pass one's life in luxury and idleness: per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere
    
  • to devote one's life to science, study: aetatem in litteris ducere, agere
    
  • the usual subjects taught to boys: doctrinae, quibus aetas puerilis impertiri solet (Nep. Att. 1. 2)
    
  • the usual subjects taught to boys: artes, quibus aetas puerilis ad humanitatem informari solet
    
  • to choose a career, profession: genus vitae (vivendi) or aetatis degendae deligere
    
  • modern history: recentioris aetatis memoria
    
  • the history of our own times; contemporary history: memoria huius aetatis (horum temporum)
    
  • universal history: omnis memoria, omnis memoria aetatum, temporum, civitatum or omnium rerum, gentium, temporum, saeculorum memoria
    
  • the mythical period, the heroic age: aetas heroica (Tusc. 5. 3. 7)
    
  • the principles which I have followed since I came to man's estate: meae vitae rationes ab ineunte aetate susceptae (Imp. Pomp. 1. 1.)
    
  • people of every rank and age: homines omnium ordinum et aetatum
    
  • the consular age (43 years): aetas consularis
    
  • military age: aetas militaris
    
  • men exempt from service owing to age: qui per aetatem arma ferre non possunt or aetate ad bellum inutiles
    
• aetas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aetas in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin