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)

• et callide cogitantes tulerunt sibi cibaria, saccos veteres asinis imponentes et utres vinarios vetustos, scissos atque consutos, (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Iosue, 9 9:4)

  그들 나름대로 속임수를 쓰기로 하였다. 그래서 그들은 양식을 싼 다음, 낡아 빠진 자루와 낡고 갈라져서 꿰맨 포도주 부대를 나귀에 싣고서 길을 떠났다. (불가타 성경, 여호수아기, 9장 9:4)

• et Iochim virique Chozeba et Ioas et Saraph, qui principes fuerunt in Moab et qui reversi sunt in Bethlehem; hae autem sunt res veteres. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber I Paralipomenon, 4 4:22)

  요킴족과 코제바 사람들, 그리고 모압에서 주인 노릇을 하다가 베들레헴으로 돌아온 요아스와 사랍이다. 이것은 옛날 일이다. (불가타 성경, 역대기 상권, 4장 4:22)

• et ait: " Si placet regi, et si inveni gratiam coram eo, et deprecatio mea non ei videtur esse contraria, et accepta sum in oculis eius, obsecro, ut novis epistulis veteres litterae Aman filii Amadathi, Agagitae, insidiatoris et hostis Iudaeorum, quibus eos in cunctis regis provinciis perire praeceperat, corrigantur. (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Esther, 8 8:5)

  (불가타 성경, 에스테르기, 8장 8:5)

• Neque mittunt vinum novum in utres veteres, alioquin rumpuntur utres, et vinum effunditur, et utres pereunt; sed vinum novum in utres novos mittunt, et ambo conservantur ". (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, 9 9:17)

  또한 새 포도주를 헌 가죽 부대에 담지 않는다. 그렇게 하면 부대가 터져 포도주는 쏟아지고 부대도 버리게 된다. 새 포도주는 새 부대에 담아야 한다. 그래야 둘 다 보존된다.” (불가타 성경, 마태오 복음서, 9장 9:17)

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