old
old
adj.
Aged: P. and V. γεραιός, Ar. and V. πᾰλαιός (rare P.), πᾰλαιγενής, V. γηρᾰλεός, γηραιός (rare P.), μακραίων.
Grow old, v.: P. and V. γηράσκειν, Ar. and P. κᾰτᾰγηράσκειν.
Of the old, adj.: Ar. and P. πρεσβῡτῐκός.
Of things, worn out: P. and V. πᾰλαιός (rare P.).
With masc. subs., V. γέρων ; with fem. subs., V. γραῖα.
Stale: P ἕωλος.
Antique: P. and V. ἀρχαῖος, πᾰλαιός, V. πᾰλαίφᾰτος.
Long existing: P. and V. χρόνιος, V. δηναιός.
Belonging to former times: P. and V. ὁ πρίν, ὁ πά̆λαι, ὁ πρόσθεν ; see former.
Obsolete: P. and V. ἀρχαῖος, πᾰλαιός, P. ἕωλος, ἀρχαιότροπος.
Old in wealth: V. ἀρχαιόπλουτος.
Of old: see formerly.
From of old: P. ἀπὸ παλαιοῦ.
How old: indirect P. and V. ἡλί̆κος.
So old: P. and V. τηλῐκοῦτος, τηλῐκόσδε.
Be seven years old: P. ἕπτα ἐτῶν εἶναι (Xen.); see under age.
I am thirty-two years old: P. δύο καὶ τριάκοντα ἔτη γέγονα (Dem. 564).
adj.
Aged: P. and V. γεραιός, Ar. and V. πᾰλαιός (rare P.), πᾰλαιγενής, V. γηρᾰλεός, γηραιός (rare P.), μακραίων.
Grow old, v.: P. and V. γηράσκειν, Ar. and P. κᾰτᾰγηράσκειν.
Of the old, adj.: Ar. and P. πρεσβῡτῐκός.
Of things, worn out: P. and V. πᾰλαιός (rare P.).
With masc. subs., V. γέρων ; with fem. subs., V. γραῖα.
Stale: P ἕωλος.
Antique: P. and V. ἀρχαῖος, πᾰλαιός, V. πᾰλαίφᾰτος.
Long existing: P. and V. χρόνιος, V. δηναιός.
Belonging to former times: P. and V. ὁ πρίν, ὁ πά̆λαι, ὁ πρόσθεν ; see former.
Obsolete: P. and V. ἀρχαῖος, πᾰλαιός, P. ἕωλος, ἀρχαιότροπος.
Old in wealth: V. ἀρχαιόπλουτος.
Of old: see formerly.
From of old: P. ἀπὸ παλαιοῦ.
How old: indirect P. and V. ἡλί̆κος.
So old: P. and V. τηλῐκοῦτος, τηλῐκόσδε.
Be seven years old: P. ἕπτα ἐτῶν εἶναι (Xen.); see under age.
I am thirty-two years old: P. δύο καὶ τριάκοντα ἔτη γέγονα (Dem. 564).
OLD
That has existed or lasted a long time not new etc. vetus (refers simply to the length of time and denotes oldness sometimes as a commendation sometimes as blame; opposed to novus new that has lately sprung up): vetustus (become old refers to the advantage of age and is said of that which has gained a good quality by age that has grown stronger more noble or excellent. The comparative vetustior is used also as comparative to vetus): vetulus (of persons somewhat advanced in years in the decline of life; implying disparagement): veteratus more commonly inveteratus (inveterate fast-rooted e.g. veteratus ulcus; inveteratum malum; jam inveterata amicitia): antiquus: very old perantiquus (that was or existed in by-gone times also ancient; opposed to recens): (The words are found in this connection and order.) vetus et antiquus; priscus (very ancient frequently with the notion of sacredness or venerable character. ☞ Cascus has the same signification but is not found in classical prose). (The words are found in this connection and order.) priscus et vetustus; vetus et priscus; priscus et antiquus; pristinus (former): antiquo artificio factus antiqui operis (of an old work of art): obsoletus (not new worn out gone out offashion). (The words are found in this connection and order.) antiquus et obsoletus; ruinosus (ready to fall ruinous). Comparative OLDER ELDER prior; superior; e.g. Dionysius the elder Dionysius superior (Vid: Ochs. Cic. Ecl. p. 63): the oldest letter anuquissima epistola: an old soldier veteranus miles or simply veteranus miles exercitatus et vetus (opposed to tiro miles or miles rudis et inexercitatus): miles militia confectus or fractus (an invalid): an old poet friend poet. amicus vetus: an old general imperator vetus: an old family genus antiquum: old custom or usage mos majorum or superiorum: this is an old custom mos hic a patribus acceptus: old institutions vetera et prisca instituta: an old constitution (of state) prisca reipublicae forma: a man of the old stamp priscae probitatis et fidei exemplar; homo antiqua virtute et fide; homo antiquis moribus: an old story historia vetus et antiqua: the good old times vetus or prior aetas: the old world olden times antiquitas veteres antiqui or prisci homines: old writers veteres and (opposed to later writers) vetustiores scriptores: to put anything on its old footing in pristinum restituere: to leave all things in their old state or condition omnia integra servare: to grow old vetustescere (of things which improve by age): veterascere senescere (of things which spoil by age): inveterascere (to fall under the right of prescription to become superannuated): inveterari (to become rooted or established). [Vid : also ANCIENT.]
Of a good age especially of persons grandis; grandior (in years with or without natu): senex (an old man from sixty; with accessory notion of respect; never as a feminine): aetate gravis; pergrandis natu exacts jam aetatis (very old): decrepitus aetate or senio confectus (old and weak decrepit): an old man senex homo aetate grandior: old fellow! mi vetule! (in pity or sorrow): old fool! stulte! silicernium (Ter. Andr. 4 3 34; a term of reproach; of an old man that bends over his staff and as it were looks at the stones or pebbles in the road): like an old man seniliter: an old woman an old maid vetula (rather implying contempt): anus anicula (implying either respect or contempt): like an old woman aniliter: the old senes (opposed to pueri and adolescentes): parentes (opposed to liberi; also of birds).
That has existed or lasted a long time not new etc. vetus (refers simply to the length of time and denotes oldness sometimes as a commendation sometimes as blame; opposed to novus new that has lately sprung up): vetustus (become old refers to the advantage of age and is said of that which has gained a good quality by age that has grown stronger more noble or excellent. The comparative vetustior is used also as comparative to vetus): vetulus (of persons somewhat advanced in years in the decline of life; implying disparagement): veteratus more commonly inveteratus (inveterate fast-rooted e.g. veteratus ulcus; inveteratum malum; jam inveterata amicitia): antiquus: very old perantiquus (that was or existed in by-gone times also ancient; opposed to recens): (The words are found in this connection and order.) vetus et antiquus; priscus (very ancient frequently with the notion of sacredness or venerable character. ☞ Cascus has the same signification but is not found in classical prose). (The words are found in this connection and order.) priscus et vetustus; vetus et priscus; priscus et antiquus; pristinus (former): antiquo artificio factus antiqui operis (of an old work of art): obsoletus (not new worn out gone out offashion). (The words are found in this connection and order.) antiquus et obsoletus; ruinosus (ready to fall ruinous). Comparative OLDER ELDER prior; superior; e.g. Dionysius the elder Dionysius superior (Vid: Ochs. Cic. Ecl. p. 63): the oldest letter anuquissima epistola: an old soldier veteranus miles or simply veteranus miles exercitatus et vetus (opposed to tiro miles or miles rudis et inexercitatus): miles militia confectus or fractus (an invalid): an old poet friend poet. amicus vetus: an old general imperator vetus: an old family genus antiquum: old custom or usage mos majorum or superiorum: this is an old custom mos hic a patribus acceptus: old institutions vetera et prisca instituta: an old constitution (of state) prisca reipublicae forma: a man of the old stamp priscae probitatis et fidei exemplar; homo antiqua virtute et fide; homo antiquis moribus: an old story historia vetus et antiqua: the good old times vetus or prior aetas: the old world olden times antiquitas veteres antiqui or prisci homines: old writers veteres and (opposed to later writers) vetustiores scriptores: to put anything on its old footing in pristinum restituere: to leave all things in their old state or condition omnia integra servare: to grow old vetustescere (of things which improve by age): veterascere senescere (of things which spoil by age): inveterascere (to fall under the right of prescription to become superannuated): inveterari (to become rooted or established). [Vid : also ANCIENT.]
Of a good age especially of persons grandis; grandior (in years with or without natu): senex (an old man from sixty; with accessory notion of respect; never as a feminine): aetate gravis; pergrandis natu exacts jam aetatis (very old): decrepitus aetate or senio confectus (old and weak decrepit): an old man senex homo aetate grandior: old fellow! mi vetule! (in pity or sorrow): old fool! stulte! silicernium (Ter. Andr. 4 3 34; a term of reproach; of an old man that bends over his staff and as it were looks at the stones or pebbles in the road): like an old man seniliter: an old woman an old maid vetula (rather implying contempt): anus anicula (implying either respect or contempt): like an old woman aniliter: the old senes (opposed to pueri and adolescentes): parentes (opposed to liberi; also of birds).
old:
I. Of persons or other living beings:
1. sĕnex, is; compar. sĕnior; no superl. (in posit., usu. as subs. = an old man; or as predicative adj.; less freq. as attributive, but only to masculine subss.: compar. used both as masc. and fem. adj.): no one is so o. as not to think ..., nemo est tam senex qui non putet, Cic. Sen. 7, 24: the and the young, senes ac juvenes, Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19: somewhat o., senior, id. S. 2, 5, 107: an older (more matured) style, senior, ut ita dicam, oratio, Cic. Br. 43, 160. (N.B.--Only by a figure of speech applied to other subss. than those denoting persons: such exprr. as senes porci, senes cygni, belonging to figurative or facetious diction cf. Juv. 6, 160. Mart. 5, 37, init.)
2. in compar. and superl., mājor, maxĭmus; with or without natu (denoting relative age, of persons only; Eng., elder, eldest: whereas senex, senior, can be used only of people actually old): Ennius was elder than Plautus, Ennius fuit major natu quam Plautus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, extr.: the elder of two sons, ex duobus filiis major, Caes. B. C. 3, 108: more than twenty years o., major annis viginti, Suet. Caes. 42: the eldest of Priam's daughters, maxima natarum Priami, Virg. Aen. 1, 654: also, maxima natu, ib. 5, 644. (N.B.--Also occur, magno natu [better than magnus natu], very old, Nep. Paus. 5: Liv. 2, 8; and maximo natu, eldest or oldest. Nep. Dat. 7, init. grandis natu, quite old, Cic. Sen. 4 10; and tantus natu, so old, Pl. Bac. 1, 2, 16: better, in prose, tam grandis natu.)
3. to expr. the exact age of a man or woman: nātus, with acc. of the number of years: almost ninety years o., annos prope XC. natus, Cic. Verr. 3, 25, 62: in combination with major: more than forty years o., annos natus major XL., Cic. R. Am. 14, 39: Nep.: Liv.
4. annōsus (full of years: rarely of persons: poet.): on o. crow, a. cornix, Hor. Od. 3, 17, 13: o. arms (branches of a tree), a. brachia, Virg. Aen. 6, 282: a very o. woman, a. anus, Ov. F. 2, 571.
5. vĕtŭlus (somewhat old, getting o.; usu. a term of disparagement: the adj. vetus, of which this is a dimin., is not used to denote age in persons or animals, cf. infr. II.): (a woman) quite o., and that has been more than once married, vetula et multarum nuptiarum, Cic. Att. 13, 29: horses that are getting o., v. equi, id. Am. 19, 67: Col.: Juv. (Vetus is however used of trees: Virg. E. 3, 12, ad veteres fagos.)
6. grandaevus (of great age; a term of dignity): Virg.: Ov.: v.AGED . Phr.: to grow o., senescere, Cic. Sen. 11, extr.: also of animals, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 8 (solve senescentem mature equum): Col.: and even of trees, Plin. 16, 27, 50: relating to o. people, senīlis: to have the sagacity of an o. man, senili esse prudentia, Cic. Div. 2, 23, 50: Hor.: Ov.: he lived to be nearly 100 years o., prope C. confecit annos, Cic. Or. 52, 176: when they are more than ten years o., quum excesserint annos decem, Col. 6, 21: Plin. (not so in Cic., who would prefer, amplius decem habere annos: cf. Caec. 19, 54; or [of persons only], majorem esse decem annis: v. supr. 2): he was so many years older than I, totidem annis mihi aetate praestabat, Cic. Br. 43, 161: also, to be older than any one, aliquem aetate antecedere, Just. 34, 3, med. (alicui aetate antecedere, Cic. Br. 21, 82 = to be chronologically earlier than another): to die when extremely o., provecta aetate mori, Cic. Tusc. 1, 39. fin.: o. and infirm, defectus annis et desertus viribus, Phaedr. 1, 21, 2; confectus senectute, Cic. Rab. perd. 7, 21: to become o. (reach old-age), senectutem adipisci, Cic Sen. 2, 4.
II. Not new:
1. vĕtus, ĕris: o. ships, v. naves, Caes. B. G. 5, 1: o. friendships, v. amicitiae, Cic. Am. 19, 67: an o. affront (not yet atoned for), v. contumelia, Caes. B. G. 1, 14: an o. poet, v. poeta, Ter. Andr. prol. 7.
2. vĕtustus (esp. having the marks of age upon it): o. sepulchres, v. sepulchra, Suet. Jul. 81: o. pitch, v. pix, Col. 12, 23, init.: eggs more than ten days o., ova vetustiora quam decem dierum, id. 8, 5: o. wines, v. vina, Plin. 14, 7, 9: an o. opinion (of long standing), v. opinio, Cic. Clu. 1, 4.
3. obsŏlētus (old and worn out): o. (shabby) clothes, vestis, vestitus obs., Liv. 27, 34, med.: Cic. Phr.: (good) o. wines, vina quae vetustatem ferunt, Cic. Am. 19, 67: to keep wine till it is o., vinum servare in vetustatem, Cato R. R. 114.
III. Belonging to former days:
1. antīquus: v.ANCIENT . Sometimes = "good old": men of the good o. stamp, homines antiqui. Cic. R. Am. 9, 26 cf. Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 88, homo antiqua virtute et fide (of the o. school of virtue and honour).
2. priscus (belonging to early times): the o. (early) race of men, p. gens mortalium, Hor. Epod. 2, 2: the o. original form of the constitution, p. illa et antiqua reipublicae forma, Vell. 2, 89: Cic. (For pristĭnus, vOLDEN .)
3. vĕtus (of that which, though ancient, still subsists or has force): v.ANCIENT . Very o., pervetus: Segesta is a very o. town in Sicily, Segesta est oppidum pervetus in Sicilia, Cic. Verr. 4, 33, init.
I. Of persons or other living beings:
1. sĕnex, is; compar. sĕnior; no superl. (in posit., usu. as subs. = an old man; or as predicative adj.; less freq. as attributive, but only to masculine subss.: compar. used both as masc. and fem. adj.): no one is so o. as not to think ..., nemo est tam senex qui non putet, Cic. Sen. 7, 24: the and the young, senes ac juvenes, Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19: somewhat o., senior, id. S. 2, 5, 107: an older (more matured) style, senior, ut ita dicam, oratio, Cic. Br. 43, 160. (N.B.--Only by a figure of speech applied to other subss. than those denoting persons: such exprr. as senes porci, senes cygni, belonging to figurative or facetious diction cf. Juv. 6, 160. Mart. 5, 37, init.)
2. in compar. and superl., mājor, maxĭmus; with or without natu (denoting relative age, of persons only; Eng., elder, eldest: whereas senex, senior, can be used only of people actually old): Ennius was elder than Plautus, Ennius fuit major natu quam Plautus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 1, extr.: the elder of two sons, ex duobus filiis major, Caes. B. C. 3, 108: more than twenty years o., major annis viginti, Suet. Caes. 42: the eldest of Priam's daughters, maxima natarum Priami, Virg. Aen. 1, 654: also, maxima natu, ib. 5, 644. (N.B.--Also occur, magno natu [better than magnus natu], very old, Nep. Paus. 5: Liv. 2, 8; and maximo natu, eldest or oldest. Nep. Dat. 7, init. grandis natu, quite old, Cic. Sen. 4 10; and tantus natu, so old, Pl. Bac. 1, 2, 16: better, in prose, tam grandis natu.)
3. to expr. the exact age of a man or woman: nātus, with acc. of the number of years: almost ninety years o., annos prope XC. natus, Cic. Verr. 3, 25, 62: in combination with major: more than forty years o., annos natus major XL., Cic. R. Am. 14, 39: Nep.: Liv.
4. annōsus (full of years: rarely of persons: poet.): on o. crow, a. cornix, Hor. Od. 3, 17, 13: o. arms (branches of a tree), a. brachia, Virg. Aen. 6, 282: a very o. woman, a. anus, Ov. F. 2, 571.
5. vĕtŭlus (somewhat old, getting o.; usu. a term of disparagement: the adj. vetus, of which this is a dimin., is not used to denote age in persons or animals, cf. infr. II.): (a woman) quite o., and that has been more than once married, vetula et multarum nuptiarum, Cic. Att. 13, 29: horses that are getting o., v. equi, id. Am. 19, 67: Col.: Juv. (Vetus is however used of trees: Virg. E. 3, 12, ad veteres fagos.)
6. grandaevus (of great age; a term of dignity): Virg.: Ov.: v.
II. Not new:
1. vĕtus, ĕris: o. ships, v. naves, Caes. B. G. 5, 1: o. friendships, v. amicitiae, Cic. Am. 19, 67: an o. affront (not yet atoned for), v. contumelia, Caes. B. G. 1, 14: an o. poet, v. poeta, Ter. Andr. prol. 7.
2. vĕtustus (esp. having the marks of age upon it): o. sepulchres, v. sepulchra, Suet. Jul. 81: o. pitch, v. pix, Col. 12, 23, init.: eggs more than ten days o., ova vetustiora quam decem dierum, id. 8, 5: o. wines, v. vina, Plin. 14, 7, 9: an o. opinion (of long standing), v. opinio, Cic. Clu. 1, 4.
3. obsŏlētus (old and worn out): o. (shabby) clothes, vestis, vestitus obs., Liv. 27, 34, med.: Cic. Phr.: (good) o. wines, vina quae vetustatem ferunt, Cic. Am. 19, 67: to keep wine till it is o., vinum servare in vetustatem, Cato R. R. 114.
III. Belonging to former days:
1. antīquus: v.
2. priscus (belonging to early times): the o. (early) race of men, p. gens mortalium, Hor. Epod. 2, 2: the o. original form of the constitution, p. illa et antiqua reipublicae forma, Vell. 2, 89: Cic. (For pristĭnus, v
3. vĕtus (of that which, though ancient, still subsists or has force): v.
old, of: ōlim, quondam: v. FORMERLY .
παλαιός
παλαιός, παλαιά, παλαιόν, old, aged, ancient
ἀρχαῖος
ἀρχαῖος, ancient, old; old-fashioned
γεραιός
γεραιός, old, aged; revered
γηράσκω
to grow old, become old
a growing old
γεραιόφρων
old of mind, sage
γραῖα
an old woman; old
παλαίωσις
a growing old
παλαιετής
old in years
παλαιόφρων
old in mind, with the wisdom of age
πελείους
old (Epirot word)
σαπρίας
old, mellow
τετραμηνιαῖος
lasting four months, four-month old
τηλίκος
of such an age, so old
ἀρχαιομελισιδωνοφρυνιχήρατος
dear honey-sweet old
ἐνιαυσιαῖος
a year old, annual
ἕωλος
a day old, kept till the morrow, stale
ἠριγέρων
early-old
ἦνις
a year old, yearling
πρεσβύτερος
πρεσβύτερος α ον, older, rather old (adjective)
παλαιός, παλαιά, παλαιόν, old, aged, ancient
ἀρχαῖος
ἀρχαῖος, ancient, old; old-fashioned
γεραιός
γεραιός, old, aged; revered
γηράσκω
to grow old, become old
appearing fewer than 50 times
γήρανσιςa growing old
γεραιόφρων
old of mind, sage
γραῖα
an old woman; old
παλαίωσις
a growing old
παλαιετής
old in years
παλαιόφρων
old in mind, with the wisdom of age
πελείους
old (Epirot word)
σαπρίας
old, mellow
τετραμηνιαῖος
lasting four months, four-month old
τηλίκος
of such an age, so old
ἀρχαιομελισιδωνοφρυνιχήρατος
dear honey-sweet old
ἐνιαυσιαῖος
a year old, annual
ἕωλος
a day old, kept till the morrow, stale
ἠριγέρων
early-old
ἦνις
a year old, yearling
πρεσβύτερος
πρεσβύτερος α ον, older, rather old (adjective)
novus
new, not old, young, fresh, recent
vetus
old, aged, advanced in years
senex
old, aged, advanced in years
natus
born; (n years) old; (noun) son, child
olim
at that time, some time ago, once upon a time, once, formerly, of old
priscus
of former times, of old, olden, ancient, primitive, antique
vetustus
aged, old, ancient, of long standing
veteranus
old, veteran
senectus
old, aged
consenesco
to grow old together, grow old, become gray
obsolesco
to wear out, grow old, decay, fall into disuse, lose value, become obsolete
old for aedituus
alis
alid, old for alius
annosus
full of years, aged, old
annotinus
a year old, of last year
antiquitus
in former times, of old, anciently, long ago
cascus
old
grandaevus
in years, old, aged
inveteratus
inveterate, old, of long standing
necessum
old for necesse
obsoletus
old, worn out, thrown off
oinos
old for unus
vetulus
elderly, somewhat old, advanced in life, no longer young
new, not old, young, fresh, recent
vetus
old, aged, advanced in years
senex
old, aged, advanced in years
natus
born; (n years) old; (noun) son, child
olim
at that time, some time ago, once upon a time, once, formerly, of old
priscus
of former times, of old, olden, ancient, primitive, antique
vetustus
aged, old, ancient, of long standing
veteranus
old, veteran
senectus
old, aged
consenesco
to grow old together, grow old, become gray
obsolesco
to wear out, grow old, decay, fall into disuse, lose value, become obsolete
appearing fewer than 50 times
aeditimusold for aedituus
alis
alid, old for alius
annosus
full of years, aged, old
annotinus
a year old, of last year
antiquitus
in former times, of old, anciently, long ago
cascus
old
grandaevus
in years, old, aged
inveteratus
inveterate, old, of long standing
necessum
old for necesse
obsoletus
old, worn out, thrown off
oinos
old for unus
vetulus
elderly, somewhat old, advanced in life, no longer young