Today’s word of the day is…

Ages by decade

I’m not talking about generations, like Baby Boomer or Gen Z. No, I’m referring to the hard-to-find names of ages per decade, regardless of which generation that person is in.

I have yet to spot, after years in university, studying psychology, any references to calling a child aged 7 as an Unarian. But it is true!

I even Googled the word, first Google directed me to the Unarius Academy of Science… wrong place! Then I added ‘age’ after Unarian, and presto, the truth is revealed!

These names are latin, and obviously meant as head-scratchers, I mean who the hell calls here is the list…

1. Unarian refers to a person, a child really, in their first decade of life, birth (0) to age 9, ten years.
2. Denarian is a person in their second decade of life, 10 to 19, most of the teenager years
3. Vicenarian is the latin name for any person living on the planet who is any age from 20 to 29, essentially their in third decade, a twenty-something
4. Tricenarians are those individuals who are 30 to 39 in age, the fourth decade of living large
5. a Quadragenarian is, you guessed right, a 40 year old! Actually, any person from 40 to 49 is a Quadraenarian, they are in the fifth decade.
6. I already did a blog on this age by decade, but to keep the flow: a person in their sixth decade of breathing is called a Quinquagenarian. They’ve hit the half-century mark, anywhere from 50 to 59, like me!
   
   Catching on are we?
   
7. The Sexagenarian is a person in their sixties (60 to 69), this is their seventh decade of making life wonderful, or not…
8. Now we come to words you see often in media, literature: The septuagenarian is that cranky person who is anywhere between 70 and 79, they are cranky because this is their eighth decade, yet no one listens to their advice!
9. If you’ve managed to make it to the ninth level, er, decade of life, not hell, congratulations! We call you an octogenarian and watch octopus documentaries!
10. So, you’ve stuck around for ten decades, you’re anywhere between 90 and 99, and you nap most of the day, they call you a nonagenarian. I guess you can just rest, you’ve see a lot of shit…
11. Most people won’t get here, but those folks who are over 100, the centenarian, are bound to be telling stories of their eleven decades of life to anyone who listens… or the just talk to themselves…
12. The very last group, the supercentenarian, are shrivelled up, bedridden, wheelchair-riding old old old folks over 110 and beyond, there are some reports of persons aged 122, 125… but that is like 0.00000001% of happening, and they still are called Supercentenarians…

Now you have some knowledge, and I need to eat before I hit the gym… I wanna be a buff Sexagenarian in two years!

Thank you for reading!