aetās ātis (gen plur. -tum; sometimes -tium, L.), f for older aevitas, the life of man, age, lifetime, years: amicitia cum aetate adcrevit, T.: acta aetas honeste: expectemus Tartessiorum regis aetatem, i. e. a life as long: satis aetatis habere, to be old enough: aetatis quod reliquum est meae, the rest of my life: vix ullum discrimen aetatis, L.: tertia, i. e. century, O.

—Age, time of life: dum aetas prohibebit (sc. te scire), T.: ab ineunte aetate, from his entrance into life: prima, childhood: puerilis, Cs.: aetatis flos, youthful vigor: cuius aetas a senatorio gradu longe abesset, i. e. youth: propter aetatem eius, Cs.: qui aliquid aetatis habebant, i. e. the youth: quarta, i. e. the fourth year, V.: respice aetatem tuam (i. e. senectutem), T.: iam adfectus aetate: morbo atque aetate confectus, S.: exactā aetate, in old age, L.: aetatis excusatio, plea of age, Cs.: id aetatis duo filii, of that age: cum id aetatis filio: cum illud esset aetatis: ad hoc aetatis a pueritiā, S.

— Of plants: adolescit frondibus aetas, V.

—Of sheep: par aetas, haedi, O.

—Meton., a space of time, age, period, generation, time: heroicae aetates: aetas succedit aetati: nec ulla umquam aetas: aetatis suae primi, N.: Veniet lustris labentibus aetas, cum, etc., V.: prior, O.: crastina, the future, H.

—Of the four ages of the world (the golden age, silver age, etc.), O.

—Time, the flight of time, advancing age: te aetas mitigabit: fugerit invida aetas, H.: omnia fert aetas, V.

—Men of an age: cum vestrā etiam aetate, with young men: vos, acrior aetas, O iuvenes, O.: militaris fere aetas omnis, L.

— The age, men of the age: nos dura Aetas, H.: Inventum omnis quem credidit aetas, etc., V.

—In acc. of time: me aetatem censes velle, etc., forever? T.: an abiit iam a milite? Iam dudum, aetatem, an age, T.