pubes

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English

Etymology 1

From Latin pubes (“the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, the genitals”), from pubes, puber (“grown up, of mature age; of plants, downy, pubescent”); see puberty.

Pronunciation

Noun

pubes

  1. plural of pubis; pubic bones.

Noun

pubes pl (plural only)

  1. The pubic hair.
  2. The pubic region.
Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pjuːbz/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːbz

Noun

pubes

  1. plural of pube
Usage notes
  • It is common for even educated people to be familiar with the back-formed sense of pubes and its singular, pube, while being unaware of the original sense, declension, and etymology. Whereas the original sense occurs mostly in medical English rather than lay English, the newer sense is widely encountered in colloquial speech, though avoided in formal-register lay vocabulary. Thus, although pubes in the sense of pubic hair has two equally valid pronunciations, the monosyllabic /pjuːbz/ is usually intended in everyday written communication.
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Galician

Noun

pubes

  1. plural of pube (pubic bones)

Noun

pubes

  1. plural of pube (crab lice)

Latin

Etymology 1

Possible connection with puer, pūpus, pūsus, putus.

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Pronunciation

Adjective

pūbēs (genitive pūberis); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)

  1. adult, grown-up
  2. pubescent
  3. ripe
  4. downy (of plants)
Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative pūbēs pūberēs pūbera
Genitive pūberis pūberum
Dative pūberī pūberibus
Accusative pūberem pūbēs pūberēs pūbera
Ablative pūbere pūberibus
Vocative pūbēs pūberēs pūbera
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Catalan: púber
  • → Italian: pubere
  • → Dutch: puber
  • → Portuguese: púbere
  • → Spanish: púber

Etymology 2

From pūbēs (“adult”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pūbēs f (genitive pūbis); third declension

  1. youth
  2. youthfulness
  3. pubic hair
Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pūbēs pūbēs
Genitive pūbis pūbium
Dative pūbī pūbibus
Accusative pūbem pūbēs
pūbīs
Ablative pūbe pūbibus
Vocative pūbēs pūbēs
Descendants

References

  • “pubes1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pubes2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pubes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pubes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pubes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pubes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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