adulēscēns1
Meaning
- one terminationyoung, youthful
- one terminationminor (of two boys)
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
iam nōn puer, nōndum iuvenis plēnus.iuvenis, nōndum senexChoosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Puer · Infans · Adolescens · Juvenis · Vir · Vetus · Senex
Puer (from parere, πάϊς,) in a wider sense, is the man in his dependent years, so long as he neither can be, nor is, the father of a family, as a young person, in three periods, as infans, νήπιος, παιδίον, from his first years till he is seven; as puer, in a narrower sense, παῖς, from his seventh year till he is sixteen; as commencing adolescens (from ἄλθειν) a youngster, μειράκιον, νεανίας, from his sixteenth year. Juvenis, in a wider sense, is as long as he remains in his years of greatest strength, from about the time of his being of age to the first appearances of advanced age, as the young man νέος, which also may be divided into three periods;—as ceasing to be adolescens, from his eighteenth year; as juvenis (from ζέω) in a narrower sense, νεανίας, from his four-and-twentieth year; as beginning to be vir, ἀνήρ, from his thirtieth year. Maturus is the man in his ripest years, when the wild fire of youth has evaporated, and may be divided into three periods;—as ceasing to be vir, ἀνήρ, from his fortieth year; as vetus, γέρων, from his fiftieth year; as senex, (ἄναξ) πρεσβύτης, from his sixtieth year. (v. 45.)
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | adulēscēns | adulēscēns | adulēscēns |
| genitive | adulēscentis | adulēscentis | adulēscentis |
| dative | adulēscentī | adulēscentī | adulēscentī |
| accusative | adulēscentem | adulēscentem | adulēscēns |
| ablative | adulēscentī adulēscente | adulēscentī adulēscente | adulēscentī adulēscente |
| vocative | adulēscēns | adulēscēns | adulēscēns |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | adulēscentēs | adulēscentēs | adulēscentia |
| genitive | adulēscentium | adulēscentium | adulēscentium |
| dative | adulēscentibus | adulēscentibus | adulēscentibus |
| accusative | adulēscentīs adulēscentēs | adulēscentīs adulēscentēs | adulēscentia |
| ablative | adulēscentibus | adulēscentibus | adulēscentibus |
| vocative | adulēscentēs | adulēscentēs | adulēscentia |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- adulescentia deferbuit
- the fires of youth have cooled.
- admodum adulescens, senex
- still quote a young (old) man.
- adulescens bonae (egregiae) spei
- a promising youth.
- adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
- he is a young man of great promise.
adulescentum, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 130). eodem ut jure uti senem liceat, quo jure sum usus adulescentior, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 3: uti adulescentior aetati concederet, etc., Sall. H. 1, 11 (Fragm. ap. Prisc. 902).— Trop., of the new Academic philosophy: adulescentior Academia, Cic. Fam. 9, 8, 1.— Sup. and adv. not used.—Primo gradu usque ad annum XV. pueros dictos, quod sint puri, i. e. impubes. Secundo ad XXX. annum ab adolescendo sic nominatos, Varr. ap. Censor. cap. 14. Tertia (aetas) adulescentia ad gignendum adulta, quae porrigitur (ab anno XIV.) usque ad vigesimum octavum annum, Isid. Orig. 11, 2, 4. Thus Cicero, in de Or. 2, 2, calls Crassus adulescens, though he was 34 years old; in id. Phil. 2, 44, Brutus and Cassius, when in their 40th year, are called adulescentes; and in id. ib. 46, Cicero calls himself, at the time of his consulship, i. e. in his 44th year, adulescens; cf. Manut. ap. Cic. Fam. 2, 1, p. 146): tute me ut fateare faciam esse adulescentem moribus, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 67: bonus adulescens, Ter. And. 4, 7, 4: adulescentes bonā indole praediti, Cic. Sen. 8, 26: adulescens luxu perditus, Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 42: adulescens perditus et dissolutus, Cic. Tusc. 4, 25; Vulg. Gen. 34, 19; ib. Matt. 19, 20.—Homo and adulescens are often used together: amanti homini adulescenti, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 94; Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 53; Cic. Fam. 2, 15: hoc se labore durant homines adulescentes, Caes. B. G. 6, 28; Sall. C. 38; id. J. 6; Liv. 2, 6.— Fem.: optimae adulescenti facere injuriam, Ter. And. 3, 2, 8: Africani filia adulescens, Cic. Div. 1, 18 fin. The young Romans who attended the proconsuls and propraetors in the provinces were sometimes called adulescentes (commonly contubernales), Caes. B. C. 1, 23; 1, 51. Sometimes adulescens serves to distinguish the younger of two persons of the same name: Brutus adulescens, Caes. B. G. 7, 87: P. Crassus adulescens, id. ib. 1, 52, and 3, 7: L. Caesar adulescens, id. B. C. 1, 8.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
From adolēscō + -ēns with a phonological change from 'o' to 'u' in the antepenultimate syllable.
In English words that came into English from adulēscēns
- adolescentadolescentem