iuvenis

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (early OIr: óac), 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) A youth, a young man, young woman, young adult between ages 20-40, older than an but younger than a /

Usage notes

 * In classical Latin, the age of a iuvenis ranged approximately from 20 to 40. By today's standards, English speakers would not call a man who is thirty-eight years of age a "young adult", but in classical Latin, this was common practice. In medieval Latin, the classical definition continued to be used, but the word could sometimes refer instead to younger ages such as 14-19, overlapping with the sense of classical Latin or even.

Adjective

 * 1) youthful, young

Usage notes

 * In Classical Latin, this adjective is used only in the positive degree (as a masculine or feminine adjective with the same consonant-stem forms as the noun) or in the comparative degree: the superlative, neuter positive forms, and oblique i-stem positive forms are classically unattested (and in some cases noted to be absent by grammarians), and such forms are only occasionally attested in Medieval or New Latin texts (e.g. i-stem genitive plural , neuter nominative/accusative singular and plural , ablative singular ).
 * The probably fourth-century grammatical text Instituta artium by pseudo-Probus or Probus minor (per modern scholarship, the author is not the first-century grammarian Marcus Valerius Probus) explicitly states that although iuvenis is said to be of common gender, it should not be used in the neuter plural.
 * In Classical Latin, when applied to a human, this adjective often implies a more specific phase of life than merely 'not yet old', typically referring to young adults rather than infants or children. See the note beneath the noun for more details on the typical age range. There are attestations in Imperial Latin that show overlap rather than contrast with the age category denoted by the word . A sense 'immature' or 'not adult' is attested in New Latin.

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