ALDR

ALDR
(gen. aldrs), m.
1) age, life-time;
sautján vetra at aldri, seventeen years of age;
ungr at aldri, young;
á ungum aldri, in (one’s) youth;
á gamals aldri, in (one’s) old age;
hniginn at aldri, in the decline of life;
hniginn á efra aldr, stricken in years;
á léttasta aldri, in the prime of life;
lifa langan aldr, to enjoy a long life;
nema, ræna e-n aldri, to take one’s life;
týna (slíta) aldri, to lose one’s life;
2) old age;
vera við aldr, to be up in years;
aldri farinn or orpinn, very old;
3) long period, age (eptir marga vetr ok mikinn aldr);
allan aldr, through all time, always;
of aldr, um aldr (ok æfi), for ever and ever;
after a negation, ever (þvílíka gersemi höfum vér eigi sét um aldr);
hverr um aldr var svá djarfr, who ever was so bold?.
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rs, pl. rar, m. [Ulf. alþs = αιών or Lat. aevum; Engl. old; Germ. alter], age, life, period, old age, everlasting time.
1. age, life-time, Lat. vita, aetas; hniginn at aldri, stricken in years, Eg. 187; hniginn á aldr, advanced in years, Orkn. 216; ungr at aldri, in youth, Fms. iii. 90; á léttasta aldri, in the prime of life, v. 71; á gamals aldri, old, iii. 71; á tvítugs, þrítugs aldri, etc.; hálfþrítugr at aldri, twenty-five years of age, Eg. 84; vera svá aldrs kominn, at that time of life, Fs. 4; hafa aldr til e-s, to be so old, be of age, Fms. i. 30; ala aldr, to live, v. ala, Fs. 146; allan aldr, during the whole of one’s life, Ver. 45; lifa langan a., to enjoy a long life, Nj. 252.
2. old age, senectus; aldri orpinn, decrepid, lit. overwhelmed by age, Fms. iv. 233, xi. 21; vera við aldr, to be advanced in years.
3. manns aldr is now used = generation; lifa marga manns aldra, to outlive many generations: sometimes denoting a period of thirty to thirty-three years.
4. seculum, aevum, an age, period; the time from the creation of the world is divided into six such ages (aldrar) in Rb. 134: cp. öld.
5. eternity; in the phrase, um aldr, for ever and ever; mun ek engan mann um aldr (no man ever) virða framar en Eystein konung, meðan ek lifi, as long as I live, Fms. vii. 147, Th. 25; af aldri, from times of yore, D. N. ii. 501; um aldr ok æfi, for ever and ever, Gþl. 251, N. G. L. i. 41.

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