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1. 노년, 노쇠, 만년, 노령

1. old age, extreme age, senility

예문

• Et ecce Elisabeth cognata tua et ipsa concepit filium in senecta sua, et hic mensis est sextus illi, quae vocatur sterilis, (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Evangelium secundum Lucam, 1 1:36)

  네 친척 엘리사벳을 보아라. 그 늙은 나이에도 아들을 잉태하였다. 아이를 못낳는 여자라고 불리던 그가 임신한 지 여섯 달이 되었다. (불가타 성경, 루카 복음서, 1장 1:36)

• quem metum Graptus ex libertis Caesaris, usu et senecta Tiberio abusque domum principum edoctus, tali mendacio intendit. (Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, LIBER XIII, chapter 47 47:3)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 연대기, , 47장 47:3)

• Superior exercitus legatum Hordeonium Flaccum spernebat, senecta ac debilitate pedum invalidum, sine constantia, sine auctoritate: (Cornelius Tacitus, Historiae, LIBER I, chapter 9 9:1)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 역사, , 9장 9:1)

• Haudquaquam erecto animo eas voces accipiebat, invalidus senecta; (Cornelius Tacitus, Historiae, LIBER III, chapter 65 65:1)

  (코르넬리우스 타키투스, 역사, , 65장 65:1)

• tu, precor, haec longa placidus mox sceptra senecta tuta geras, meliorque tibi sit cetera proles.' (C. Valerius Catullus, Argonautica, C Valeri Flacci Argonautiocon Liber Octavus. 16:1)

  (가이우스 발레리우스 카툴루스, 아르고나우티카, 16:1)

유의어 사전

1. Vetus homo (ἔτος) denotes an old man, from the fiftieth year of his life, in opp. to juvenis, a young man, like γέρων; whereas senex (ἄναξ? or ἕνουσ ἔχων?), an old man from his sixtieth year, with the accessory notion of his being worthy of respect, like πρεσβύτης; lastly, grandævus and longævus denote a very aged man, who has already exceeded the usual duration of life, and who is, consequently, somewhere about eighty or upwards. 2. Senecta denotes old age indifferently, merely as a period of life; senectus, as a venerable and experienced age, that commands respect and indulgence; senium, the infirm and burdensome age, which is to be looked upon as a disease. (iv. 89.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein