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Latin
Etymology
adulēscēns + -ia
Pronunciation
Noun
adulēscentia f (genitive adulēscentiae); first declension
- youth, youthfulness, young manhood
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “adulescentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adulescentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- adulescentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the fires of youth have cooled: adulescentia deferbuit