Daily Ancestorsenex
Senex is Latin for an old man or an old person; the related comparative senior means older or the elder.
Senex means old man, and more generally an old person; as an adjective it means old or aged. Wiktionary notes that a senex was typically a man of 40 or more, older than a iuvenis.
The comparative is senior, older, and senes is the plural. In a burial entry senex describes the dead person as old; the age, if given, is more exact.
As seen in a recordLatin burial register, Hungary, 1790s
Sepultus est Andreas Halaszi, senex, annorum 81
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Daily Ancestor. "senex." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/latin/senex. Last checked 2026-10-12.