word of the day

i was in a focus group session today and an elderly lady pleaded for patience as she shared her opinions because she is an octogenarian. as it was a hospital focus group session, i thought it was her condition. then the facilitator said, "well you look really good for an octogenarian" which then got me thinking.

so if she is an octogenarian, does that make me a trigenarian? and why isn't there such a word? why is there a quadragenarian? and what other 'genarians are there?

POST NOTE : god bless google. i've found this reference by decade. which references this site. interesting (to me) that these are medical terms. personally, i think sexagenarian sounds like something else altogether. like an old nympho .... and at 60, she most probably is.

but i digress, looks like i'm a tricenarian :)