noun · femininethird declension
iuventūs
iuventūs f (genitive iuventūtis)
Classical[jʊˈwɛn.tuːs]Ecclesiastical[juˈvɛn.tus]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- the age of youth, youth
Gaudeamus igitur Post iucundam iuventutem
After a pleasant youth4th century, St. Jerome, Vulgate, Psalm 42:4; Catholic Prayers at the Foot of the Altar of the Tridentine Mass per the Ordinary of the 1962 Roman Missal (Latin with English translation)
And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth. (Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner rev.) Link to Psalm 42 in parallel Latin Vulgate & English Douay-Rheims
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
aetās iuvenis; etiam omnēs iuvenēs.iuventūs -ūtis f — in Mille Verba, ch. Vīta et Mors
aetās iuvenīlisiuventūs -ūtis (f) — in Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 15
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Juventa · Juventus · Juventas · Juvenalis · Juvenilis
1. Juventa (from ζέω, ζόη), is the season of youth; juventus, a collection of young men; Juventas, the goddess of youth. 2. Juvenalis denotes youthful, either indifferently, as that which belongs to young people, or with praise, in opp. to the weakness of old age; whereas juvenilis denotes youthful, with the accessory moral notion of what is in conformity with the character of young people, mostly with blame, in opp. to the maturity of age. (v. 46.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | iuventūs | iuventūtēs |
| genitive | iuventūtis | iuventūtum |
| dative | iuventūtī | iuventūtibus |
| accusative | iuventūtem | iuventūtēs |
| ablative | iuventūte | iuventūtibus |
| vocative | iuventūs | iuventūtēs |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- qui arma ferre possunt or iuventus
- men of military age.
jŭventus, ūtis (scanned as dissyl., Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 30; id. Curc. 1, 1, 38; cf. junior), f. juvenis,
I. the age of youth (from the twentieth to the fortieth year), youth (rare, except in transf. meaning; cf. juventas).
I. Lit.:
quae juventute geruntur et viribus, Cic. de Sen. 6, 15: ibique juventutem suam exercuit, Sall. C. 5, 2.—II. Transf., concr.
A. Young persons, youth:
quo nemo adaeque juventute ex omni Attica antehac est habitus parcus, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 29: juventutis mores scire, id. Am. 1, 1, 2: nulla juventutis est spes; sese omnes amant, id. Capt. 1, 2, 19: ob eamque causam juventus nostra dedisceret paene discendo, Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 93: cum omnis juventus, omnes etiam gravioris aetatis eo convenerant, Caes. B. G. 3, 16, 2; 6, 14 fin.; 6, 23, 6; id. B. C. 2, 5, 3 sq.; Hirt. B. G. 8, 8, 2: Trojana, Verg. A. 1, 467: Cannis consumpta juventus, Juv. 2, 155: alios caedit sua quemque juventus, pupils, id. 7, 213.—Of young bees, Verg. G. 4, 22; hence: princeps juventutis, in the time of the republic the first among the knights, Cic. Vatin. 10, 24; id. Fam. 3, 11, 3; under the emperors, a title of the imperial princes, Tac. A. 1, 3.—B. Personified: Jŭventus, the goddess of youth (for the usual Juventas):
FLAMINIS IVVENTVTIS, Inscr. Orell. 2213; Hyg. Fab. praef.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
iuventūs ūtis, f
iuvenis, the age of youth, youth (from twenty to forty): quae iuventute geruntur et viribus: iuventutem suam exercuit, S. —Young persons, youth: pleraque, S.: omnis: Troiana, V.: Alcinoi, i. e. Phaeacians, H.: alios caedit sua quemque iuventus, pupils, Iu.: favis emissa, brood (of bees), V.: princeps iuventutis, first among the knights.
Origins
From iuvenis (“young”) + -tūs (abstract noun-forming suffix). Compare Proto-Celtic *yuwantūts.
Descendants
- Catalanjoventut
- Catalanjovetut
- EnglishJuventus
- Italiangioventùfrom Old Italian gioventute
- Occitanjoventut
- Portuguesejuventude
- Sardiniangioventudi
- Sardiniangioventura
- Spanishjuventud
- Aragonesechuventud