dotage

angla

Angla substantivo English noun
Singularo	Pluralo
dotage	dotages

Elparolo

• (Ĝenerala Usona) IFA:  /ˈdoʊtɪdʒ/ 
• (Ricevita Prononcado) IFA:  /ˈdəʊtɪdʒ/ 

Signifoj

[1] maljuneco

Samsencaĵoj

[1] senile old age

Signifoj en la angla:

1. Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.
   • 1841, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, chapter 1,

     "More care!" said the old man. . . . There were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.

2. Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, scene 3,

     CLAUDIO: And she is exceeding wise.

     DON PEDRO: In every thing but in loving Benedick. . . . I would she had bestowed this dotage on me.

3. Foolish utterance(s); drivel.

   The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. — Milton.

Ekzemploj

[1] Alexis should've met me when I was twenty, not now, in my dotage

→Alexis estu alveninta ĉe mi kiam mi estis dudek-jara: en mia fora hieraŭo; ne nun.

Tradukoj

   

hispana: [1] tercera edad → es, ancianidad

pola: zdziecinnienie → pl

Referencoj kaj literaturo

[1] Macmillan Dictionary, far Macmillan Education Limited: dotage (brita), dotage (usona)

[1] Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary dotage

[1] Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus dotage

[1] Dictionary.com (vortaro angla-angla, trezoro kaj enciklopedio) dotage

[1] PONS angla-Deutsch, Stichwort: „dotage“

[1] dict.cc angla-germana, kapvorto: „dotage“

[1] LEO angla-germana, kapvorto: „dotage“

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