senior
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, signore, sir, and sire.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsinjɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsiːnjə(r)/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: se‧nior
Adjective edit
senior (comparative more senior, superlative most senior)
- Older; superior
- senior citizen
- Higher in rank, dignity, or office.
- senior member; senior counsel
- (US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
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- (older): geriatric, long in the tooth, on in years; see also Thesaurus:elderly
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Noun edit
senior (plural seniors)
- (now chiefly US) An old person.
- Synonyms: senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Question!’”, in The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 77:
- Grave and reverend seniors seemed to have caught the prevailing spirit as badly as the students, and I saw white-bearded men rising and shaking their fists at the obdurate Professor.
- Someone older than someone else (with possessive). [from 15th c.]
- He was four years her senior.
- Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age. [from 14th c.]
- (obsolete, biblical) An elder or presbyter in the early Church. [14th–16th c.]
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts :[8], folio clviij, recto:
- Then Peter full of the holy gooſt ſayd vnto them. Ye ruelars of the people / and ſeniours of iſrahel […].
- Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
- (US, Philippines) A final-year student at a high school or university. [from 17th c.]
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Further reading edit
- “senior”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “senior”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of sire, seigneur, and sieur.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
senior m (plural seniors)
Further reading edit
- “senior”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”). Doublet of senyur and sinyo.
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Adjective edit
senior
- senior
- older; superior
- higher in rank, dignity, or office.
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- (in rank) kanan (Standard Malay)
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- “senior” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
senior (comparative plus senior, superlative le plus senior)
Noun edit
senior (plural seniors)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Comparative of senex.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ni.or/, [ˈs̠ɛniɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ni.or/, [ˈsɛːnior]
Adjective edit
senior (neuter senius); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension comparative adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | senior | senius | seniōrēs | seniōra | |
Genitive | seniōris | seniōrum | |||
Dative | seniōrī | seniōribus | |||
Accusative | seniōrem | senius | seniōrēs | seniōra | |
Ablative | seniōre | seniōribus | |||
Vocative | senior | senius | seniōrēs | seniōra |
Noun edit
senior m (genitive seniōris); third declension
- (Medieval Latin) a lord, sir
- Coordinate term: seniorissa
- (Medieval Latin) an abbot
- (Medieval Latin) a husband
- old person, old man, older person, older man
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | senior | seniōrēs |
Genitive | seniōris | seniōrum |
Dative | seniōrī | seniōribus |
Accusative | seniōrem | seniōrēs |
Ablative | seniōre | seniōribus |
Vocative | senior | seniōrēs |
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Descendants edit
- Aragonese: sinyor
- Dalmatian: sinaur, sinar
- Friulian: signôr, siôr
- Italian: signore
- Old French: seignor
- Old French: sire
- Old French: sendra
- Old Galician-Portuguese: senhor
- Old Lombard: segnior
- Old Occitan: senhor, segnor
- Old Spanish: sennor
- Romagnol: signôr, sgnôr, Signôr
- Romansch: signur
- Sardinian: sannori, segnore, segnori, sennore
- Venetian: sior
- Borrowings:
References edit
- “senior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “senior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- senior in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- senior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- senior in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Anagrams edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin senior.
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Noun edit
senior m pers (female equivalent seniorka)
- doyen, senior (oldest member of the family by age)
- doyen, elder, senior (eldest or most experienced member of a group)
- Synonyms: nestor, patriarcha
- senior (athlete of adult age according to the regulations of a given sport discipline)
- Antonym: junior
- Hypernym: sportowiec
Noun edit
senior m pers
- Sr. (title used after a father's name when his son is given the same name)
- Antonym: junior
- (feudalism, historical) feudal lord exercising power and guardianship over his subordinate vassal
- Antonym: wasal
- Hypernyms: feudał, zwierzchnik
- (historical) during the period of the division of Poland into districts, the oldest of the Piasts who exercised supreme power and to whom the other princes ruling the various districts were subordinate
- Hypernym: zwierzchnik
- (Protestantism) senior (senior Protestant clergyman)
- Hypernym: duchowny
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French senior, itself borrowed from Latin senior.
Adjective edit
senior m or n (feminine singular senioră, masculine plural seniori, feminine and neuter plural seniore)
Declension edit
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | senior | senioră | seniori | seniore | ||
definite | seniorul | seniora | seniorii | seniorele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | senior | seniore | seniori | seniore | ||
definite | seniorului | seniorei | seniorilor | seniorelor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin senior. Doublet of señor.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
senior m (plural seniores)
- senior (clarification of this definition is needed)