Monday, September 27, 2010

I am a Quinquaganerian

And proud of it.

Isn't that an amazing word? It's worth playing Scrabble, just to discover words like this one (in the dictionary where I am looking up a word in vain hope that it actually is a word).

So: quinquaganerian:

adjective
50 years old, or between the ages of 50 and 60
noun
a person of this age

I am 52 years old and so I am a quinquagenarian.

2 comments:

Noons said...

52? Kid!...

Bora said...

quinquagenarian

Etimology:
From Latin quinquagenarius (“containing fifty”), from quinquegeni (“fifty each”), from quinquaginta (“fifty”) +‎ -an