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Latin
Etymology
From in- + pūbēs.
Pronunciation
Adjective
impūbēs (genitive impūberis or impūbis); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)
- youthful
- beardless
- celibate, chaste
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Descendants
Further reading
- “impubes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “impubes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- impubes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “impubes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “impubes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin