sescenaris

Latin

Etymology

Conventionally explained as a corruption of a hypothesised *sēscennālis, from sēsqui- (one and a half) +‎ annālis (yearly); compare decennālis (ten-yearly). However, Lewis and Short regard as "improbable" the "conjectural correction" to *sēscennālis or alternatively to sexennis (six-year-old).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sēscēnāris (neuter sēscēnāre); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. (hapax legomenon) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: one and a half years old
    • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 41.15.1:
      exposuit patribus conscriptis bovis sescenaris, quem immolavisset, iocur diffluxisse
      he explained to the senators that the liver of the [] ox which he had sacrificed had disappeared

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative sēscēnāris sēscēnāre sēscēnārēs sēscēnāria
genitive sēscēnāris sēscēnārium
dative sēscēnārī sēscēnāribus
accusative sēscēnārem sēscēnāre sēscēnārīs
sēscēnārēs
sēscēnāria
ablative sēscēnārī sēscēnāribus
vocative sēscēnāris sēscēnāre sēscēnārēs sēscēnāria

References

  • sescenaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sescenaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sescenaris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.