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senectute

senectute is a Latin form of senectus, meaning “old age”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 84 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 8.31: ego, patres conscripti, Q. Scaevolam augurem memoria teneo bello Marsico, cum esset summa senectute et perdita valetudine, cotidie simul atque luceret facere omnibus conveniendi potestatem sui: nec eum quisqua …

Cicero, De Divinatione 2.3: … , ceteris item multum illam profuturam puto. interiectus est etiam nuper liber is, quem ad nostrum Atticum de Senectute misimus; in primisque, quoniam philosophia vir bonus efficitur et fortis, Cato noster in horum librorum numer …

All forms of senectus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.