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English
Etymology
From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).
Adjective
juvenal
- Of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.
Derived terms
Noun
juvenal (plural juvenals)
- A juvenal bird.
- (obsolete) A youth.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. (First Quarto), London: W W for Cutbert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W Griggs, , , →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], signature B2, recto, line 8:How canſt thou part ſadnes and melancholy, my tender Iuuenall?