adulescens

Latin

Alternative forms

• adolescēns

Etymology

From adolēscō +‎ -ēns with a phonological change from 'o' to 'u' in the antepenultimate syllable.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.dʊˈɫeːs.kẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.duˈlɛʃ.ʃens]

Adjective

adulēscēns (genitive adulēscentis, comparative adulēscentior); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. young, youthful
2. minor (of two boys)

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	adulēscēns			adulēscentēs	adulēscentia
genitive	adulēscentis			adulēscentium
dative	adulēscentī			adulēscentibus
accusative	adulēscentem	adulēscēns		adulēscentīs adulēscentēs	adulēscentia
ablative	adulēscentī adulēscente			adulēscentibus
vocative	adulēscēns			adulēscentēs	adulēscentia

Noun

adulēscēns m or f (genitive adulēscentis); third declension

1. a youth, a youngster; a young man, a lad; a young lady, a young woman, a maiden (likely between ages 14-21) (older than a puer but younger than a iuvenis)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	adulēscēns	adulēscentēs
genitive	adulēscentis	adulēscentium
dative	adulēscentī	adulēscentibus
accusative	adulēscentem	adulēscentēs adulēscentīs
ablative	adulēscente	adulēscentibus
vocative	adulēscēns	adulēscentēs

The genitive plural is usually adulēscentium; the alternative form adulēscentum is also attested, though rare.

Derived terms

• adulescentulus

References

• “adulescens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “adulescens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “adulescens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • still quote a young (old) man: admodum adulescens, senex
    
  • he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
    
  • a promising youth: adulescens bonae (egregiae) spei
    
• “adulescens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers