Daily Ancestoraetas
Aetas is the Latin noun for age, the length of a person's life so far; in records it often appears in its forms aetatis and aetate.
Aetas means age or lifetime. Latin changes word endings by grammar, so a register rarely shows aetas itself: you are more likely to read aetatis (of age) or aetate (at the age of), followed by a number of years.
Ages in burial registers were often given by relatives or guessed by the priest, so treat them as approximate and compare with the baptism entry if you can find it.
As seen in a recordLatin burial register entry
sepultus est Jacobus Weber, aetate 63 annorum
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Daily Ancestor. "aetas." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/latin/aetas. Last checked 2026-10-01.