juvenal

See also: Juvenal

English

Etymology

From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).

Adjective

juvenal

1. Of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.

Derived terms

• postjuvenal

Noun

juvenal (plural juvenals)

1. A juvenal bird.
2. (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[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], signature B2, recto, line 8:

     How canſt thou part ſadnes and melancholy, my tender Iuuenall?

Related terms

• juvenile