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senior
senior (a person of greater age, rank, or experience than a junior) /se.niˈor/
noun#4374 most common
Also: feudal lord, liege lord (historical), elder, older person
Example sentences
Tatăl meu joacă tenis la categoria senior.
My father plays tennis in the senior category.
El este manager senior la o bancă mare.
He is a senior manager at a large bank.
Seniorii echipei au mai multă experiență decât juniorii.
The team's seniors have more experience than the juniors.
În Evul Mediu, vasalii jurau credință seniorului lor feudal.
In the Middle Ages, vassals swore loyalty to their feudal lord.
Seniorul deținea dreptul de a judeca litigiile din domeniul său.
The lord held the right to judge disputes within his domain.
Relația dintre senior și vasal se baza pe un jurământ de credință reciprocă, consfințit printr-o ceremonie numită omagiu.
The relationship between lord and vassal rested on a mutual oath of loyalty, sealed through a ceremony called homage.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | seniorul | seniorii |
| Genitive | seniorului | seniorilor |
| Accusative | seniorul | seniorii |
| Vocative | seniorule | seniorilor |
Word family
senioratseniority, or the domain/authority of a feudal lord
senioralseigneurial, pertaining to a lord
senioarefemale seniors (used in sports for the women's senior category)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "senior" from Latin senior, the comparative form of senex, meaning "old." The word entered Romanian as a learned term during the nineteenth-century wave of Latin and French borrowings, alongside French seigneur, and was first used to describe feudal lords in historical writing. Its old comparative sense, "more aged, higher in rank," survives today in the modern contrast between senior and junior in sports and professional titles.
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