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senior

senior is a Latin form of senex, meaning “old man; old”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective.

It can also be a form of seni, “six each, six at a time”.

Found 146 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Murena 60: … ssum; non nulla forsitan conformare et leviter emendare possim. non multa peccas, inquit ille fortissimo viro senior magister, sed peccas; te regere possum. at ego non te; verissime dixerim peccare te nihil neque ulla in re te …

All forms of senex (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.