뜻

1. 오래된, 늙은, 고대의
2. 장기간의

1. old, aged, ancient
2. long-standing

예문

• seretisque anno octavo et comedetis veteres fruges usque ad nonum annum; donec nova nascantur, edetis vetera. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Leviticus, 25 25:22)

  그래서 씨를 다시 뿌리는 여덟째 해에 너희는 묵은 곡식을 먹을 것이다. 아홉째 해가 되어 그해 소출이 날 때까지 묵은 곡식을 먹게 될 것이다.’ (불가타 성경, 레위기, 25장 25:22)

• Comedetis vetusta congregata priorum messium; et vetera, novis supervenientibus, proicietis. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Leviticus, 26 26:10)

  너희는 묵은 곡식을 오래 갈무리하며 먹다가, 햇곡식이 나오면 묵은 곡식을 퍼내 버려야 할 것이다. (불가타 성경, 레위기, 26장 26:10)

• Quīntus, hanc caerimōniam tam veterem spectāns, penitus commōtus est. (Oxford Latin Course III, Quīntus Delphōs vīsit 34:32)

  Quintus는 꽤 긴 이 의식을 보면서, 마음 깊이 감동했다. (옥스포드 라틴 코스 3권, 34:32)

• paucīs post diēbus Quīntus alterī amīcō veterī in forō occurrit. (Oxford Latin Course III, Pompēius ad patriam revenit 42:1)

  (옥스포드 라틴 코스 3권, 42:1)

• Maecēnās erat vir īnsignis, vetus amīcus Octāviānī; (Oxford Latin Course III, Quīntus Maecēnātī commendātur 43:7)

  (옥스포드 라틴 코스 3권, 43:7)

유의어 사전

1. Antiquum and priscum denote the age that formerly existed, and is now no more, in opp. to novum, like παλαιός; vetus and vetustum (from ἔτος), what has existed for a long time, and has no longer any share in the disadvantages or advantages of youth, in opp. to recens, like γέρων, γεραιόσ, γερούσιος. Hence antiquus homo is a man who existed in ancient times; vetus, an old man. Antiqui scriptores means the classics, inasmuch as the age in which they flourished has long been past; veteres, inasmuch as they have lived and influenced manhood for 2000 years. Cic. Verr. i. 21. Vereor ne hæc nimis antiqua et jam obsoleta videantur: compare with Orat. i. 37. Ut illi vetus atque usitata exceptio daretur. 2. Vetus refers only to length of time, and denotes age, sometimes as a subject of praise, sometimes as a reproach; vetustus refers to the superiority of age, inasmuch as that which is of long standing is at the same time stronger, more worthy of honor, more approved of, than that which is new, in opp. to novicius; lastly, veternus refers to the disadvantages of age, inasmuch as, after many years’ use, a thing becomes worn out, or, through long existence, weak and spiritless. Moreover, veternus, in the writers of the golden age, is only admitted as a substantive, veternum, as lethargy; vetus regularly supplies its place, and denotes more frequently the weakness than the strength of age. Tac. Ann. xi. 14 and 15. Veterrimis Græcorum, and vetustissima Italiæ disciplina. 3. Antiquus denotes age only in relation to time, as a former age in opp. to the present; priscus (from πάρος), as a solemn word, with the qualifying accessory notion of a former age worthy of honor, and a sacred primitive age, like ἀρχαῖος, in opp. to the fashion of the day. 4. Antiquus and priscus denote a time long past; pristinus, generally, denotes only a time that is past, like πρότερος. (iv. 83.)

Puer (from parere, πάϊς,) in a wider sense, is the man in his dependent years, so long as he neither can be, nor is, the father of a family, as a young person, in three periods, as infans, νήπιοσ, παιδίον, from his first years till he is seven; as puer, in a narrower sense, παῖς, from his seventh year till he is sixteen; as commencing adolescens (from ἄλθειν) a youngster, μειράκιον, νεανίας, from his sixteenth year. Juvenis, in a wider sense, is as long as he remains in his years of greatest strength, from about the time of his being of age to the first appearances of advanced age, as the young man νέος, which also may be divided into three periods;—as ceasing to be adolescens, from his eighteenth year; as juvenis (from ζέω) in a narrower sense, νεανίας, from his four-and-twentieth year; as beginning to be vir, ἀνήρ, from his thirtieth year. Maturus is the man in his ripest years, when the wild fire of youth has evaporated, and may be divided into three periods;—as ceasing to be vir, ἀνήρ, from his fortieth year; as vetus, γέρων, from his fiftieth year; as senex, (ἄναξ) πρεσβύτης, from his sixtieth year. (v. 45.)

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