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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From adolēscō + -ēns with a phonological change from 'o' to 'u' in the antepenultimate syllable.
Pronunciation
Adjective
adulēscēns (genitive adulēscentis, comparative adulēscentior); third-declension one-termination adjective
- young, youthful
- minor (of two boys)
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Noun
adulēscēns m or f (genitive adulēscentis); third declension
- a youth, a youngster; a young man, a lad; a young lady, a young woman, a maiden (likely between ages 14-21) (older than a puer but younger than a iuvenis)
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
The genitive plural is usually adulēscentium; the alternative form adulēscentum is also attested, though rare.
Derived terms
References
- “adulescens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adulescens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- adulescens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- still quote a young (old) man: admodum adulescens, senex
- he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
- a promising youth: adulescens bonae (egregiae) spei
- “adulescens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers