adjectivethird-declension two-termination adjective
sēscēnāris
sēscēnāris (neuter sēscēnāre)
Classical[seːs.keːˈnaː.rɪs]Ecclesiastical[seʃ.ʃeˈnaː.ris]
Meaning
- two terminationThe meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: one and a half years old
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 disappeared27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 41.15.1
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sēscēnāris | sēscēnāris | sēscēnāre |
| genitive | sēscēnāris | sēscēnāris | sēscēnāris |
| dative | sēscēnārī | sēscēnārī | sēscēnārī |
| accusative | sēscēnārem | sēscēnārem | sēscēnāre |
| ablative | sēscēnārī | sēscēnārī | sēscēnārī |
| vocative | sēscēnāris | sēscēnāris | sēscēnāre |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sēscēnārēs | sēscēnārēs | sēscēnāria |
| genitive | sēscēnārium | sēscēnārium | sēscēnārium |
| dative | sēscēnāribus | sēscēnāribus | sēscēnāribus |
| accusative | sēscēnārīs sēscēnārēs | sēscēnārīs sēscēnārēs | sēscēnāria |
| ablative | sēscēnāribus | sēscēnāribus | sēscēnāribus |
| vocative | sēscēnārēs | sēscēnārēs | sēscēnāria |
sescēnāris, e, adj. deriv. and signif. unknown:
I.
bovis sescenaris jecur, Liv. 41, 15, 1 (but the conjectural correction to sescennalis or sexennis is improbable) Weissenb. ad loc.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
sēscēnāris e, adj.
perh. sesqui+annus, of one and a half years, eighteen months old : bos, L.
Origins
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”).