senio

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.njo/, [ˈs̪ɛːn̺jo]
• Hyphenation: sè‧nio

senio m (plural senî)

1. (obsolete, literary) old age, oldness, decrepitude
   • 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

   • Synonyms: anzianità, decrepità, vecchiaia, vecchiezza
   • Antonyms: gioventù, giovinezza

Derived from sēnī (“six each”).

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

sēniō f (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, 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 main entry.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.oː/, [ˈsɛ.ni.oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.o/, [ˈseː.ni.o]

seniō

1. dative singular of senium
2. ablative singular of senium