senile
Meanings
Adjective
- Of, or relating to old age.
- Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.
Noun
- A person who is senile.
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Origin
- 1660s; borrowed from French sénile, from Middle French senile, from Old French senile, from Latin senīlis ("of or pertaining to old age"), from senex, from Gaulish and Proto-Indo-European *sénos ("old").
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