senile
pronunciation
How to pronounce senile in British English:
UK [ˈsi:naɪl]
How to pronounce senile in American English:
US [ˈsiˌnaɪl, ˈsɛnˌaɪl]
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- Adjective:
- mentally or physically infirm with age
Word Origin
- senile (adj.)
- 1660s, "suited to old age," from French sénile (16c.), from Latin senilis "of old age," from senex (genitive senis) "old, old man," from PIE root *sen- "old" (cognates: Sanskrit sanah "old;" Avestan hana- "old;" Old Persian hanata- "old age, lapse of time;" Armenian hin "old;" Greek enos "old, of last year;" Lithuanian senas "old," senis "an old man;" Gothic sineigs "old" (used only of persons), sinistra "elder, senior;" Old Norse sina "dry standing grass from the previous year;" Old Irish sen, Old Welsh hen "old"). Meaning "weak or infirm from age" is first attested 1848.
Example
- 1. To investigate risk factors of senile degenerated heart valvular diseases .
- 2. Your dog may become senile .
- 3. Russians are known to be a long-suffering people , especially when it comes to putting up with leaders who are senile , negligent or much , much worse .
- 4. Fox news couldn 't even find egypt on the map , and seemed befuddled by the " senile and paranoid autocrat , " as I called hosni mubarak last year .
- 5. The mechanism review of senile dementia treated with acupuncture .