Etymology

senesce

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Today it means: To grow older; to reach maturity. Full definition →

Latin senēscere
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromsenēscere“to grow old”
  2. English todaysenesce

From Latin senēscere (“to grow old”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.