“older” in Latin

comparative, major natu (opposed to minor natu); also simply major. THE OLDEST, superlative, maximus natu: the oldest of the children, vetustissimus liberorum (Tac., Ann., 2, 2, 1): the oldest of the stock, stirpis maximus: the oldest of our contemporaries, vetustissimus ex iis qui vivunt: to grow old, senescere.

That has a certain age, that has lived so many years, with the verb “to be” may be expressed by natum esse, followed by an accusative of the years, or simply by esse followed by a genitive of the years, and “to be old may be expressed by vixisse, confecisse, complevisse followed by the number of years in the accusative; e.g., he is nineteen years old, decem et novem annos natus est; or, decem et novem annorum est: he is ninety years old, nonaginta annos vixit, confecit, complevit: to be more than forty years old, quadragesimum annum excessisse, egressum esse: to be not yet twenty years old, minorem esse viginti annis (or annos): to be as old as anybody, aequalem esse alicui: to be older than anybody, alicui aetate anteire, antecedere, praecurrere aliquem aetate: he was so many years older than myself, totidem annis mihi aetate praestabat: how old do you consider me to be? quid aetatis tibi videor? OLD AGE, senecta (poetical, old age, indifferently; merely as a period of life): senectus (old age, as deserving respect): senium (old age, as a time of infirmity, decay, etc.): senilis aetas (whether with reference to the weakness or to the experience of age: poetical senecta): aetas extrema or exacta; summa senectus (extreme old age): aetas decrepita (decrepitude): vetustas (great age and consequent goodness of a thing long kept; e.g., of wine, fruits, etc.). A green old age, cruda ac viridis senectus (Verg.): the approach of old age, senectus adventans et urgens: to live to or attain old age, senectutem adipisci, ad senectutem adipisci, ad senectutem venire; to extreme old age, ad summam senectutem vivere or venire (Cic.). Old age gives experience, seris venit usus ab annis (Ov.): to die in a good old age, senectute diem obire supremum; exacta aetate mori: to die of old age, aliquem senectus dissolvit: to be worn out with old age, aetate or senio confectum esse: to make provisions against old age, senectuti subsidium parare.