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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect participle of adolēscō (“to grow up”) (the present participle of which - adolēscens (“growing up”) - gave French adolescent).
Pronunciation
Adjective
adulte (plural adultes)
- adult
1762, Voltaire, Extraits des sentiments de Jean Meslier:Jésus fut circoncis à huit jours, et baptisé étant adulte, selon la coutume de plusieurs Juifs, qui regardaient le baptême comme une purification des souillures de l’âme: c’était un ancien usage des peuples de l’Indus et du Gange, à qui les brachmanes avaient fait accroire que l’eau lave les péchés comme les vêtements.- Jesus was circumcised when he was eight days old and baptised as an adult, in accordance with the custom of a few Jews who looked upon baptism as the cleansing of the soul's stains. This was an old custom of the peoples of the Indus and the Ganges who had been convinced by the Brahmans that water washes sins like it washes clothes.
Derived terms
Noun
adulte m or f by sense (plural adultes)
- adult
1949, Paul Ricœur, Philosophie de la volonté:Sans doute un certain non-conformisme agressif, une arrogance et une susceptibilité ombrageuse, une certaine surestimation de soi faite de complaisance et d’angoisse apparaîtront-elles plus tard dérisoires au jeune homme qui sort de l’adolescence. Mais ce sens de la singularité, de la solitude, ce goût de la pureté et de l’absolu, ce pouvoir d’étonnement et d’émerveillement, cette énergie même et cette avidité que l’on accorde d’ordinaire à la jeunesse, ne sont-ils pas des biens humains que l’adulte réalisateur, pratique, un peu blasé, a laissés flétrir?- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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German
Pronunciation
Adjective
adulte
- inflection of adult:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
adulte f pl
- feminine plural of adulto
Noun
adulte f pl
- feminine plural of adulto
Latin
Participle
adulte
- vocative masculine singular of adultus
Romanian
Pronunciation
Adjective
adulte
- nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of adult
Noun
adulte f
- plural of adultă (female) adults