iuvenis

Latin

Alternative forms

• juvenis

Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *juwenis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁en-. Cognates include Sanskrit युवन् (yúvan), Persian جوان (javān) and Old English ġeong (English young).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯u.u̯e.nis/, [ˈi̯uː̯ɛnɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈju.ve.nis/, [ˈjuːvenis]

Adjective

iuvenis (genitive iuvenis, comparative iūnior or iuvenior, superlative iuvenissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. young

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	iuvenis			iuvenēs	iuvenia
Genitive				iuvenium
Dative	iuvenī			iuvenibus
Accusative	iuvenem	iuvenis		iuvenēs	iuvenia
Ablative	iuvenī			iuvenibus
Vocative	iuvenis			iuvenēs	iuvenia

Antonyms

• senex

Noun

iuvenis m or f (genitive iuvenis); third declension

1. A youth; a young man or woman.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iuvenis	iuvenēs
Genitive	iuvenis	iuvenum
Dative	iuvenī	iuvenibus
Accusative	iuvenem	iuvenēs
Ablative	iuvene	iuvenibus
Vocative	iuvenis	iuvenēs

Related terms

• iūnior
• iūnīx
• iuvenālis
• iuvenculascō
• iuvenculus
• iuvencus
• iuvenēscō
• iuvenīlis
• iuvenīlitās
• iuvenīliter
• iuvenior
• iuvenor
• iuventa
• iuventās
• Iuventās
• iuventūs

 

Descendants

Descendants

• Aragonese: choven
• Aromanian: gioni
• Asturian: xoven
• Catalan: jove
• Dalmatian: jaun
• Friulian: zovin, ğovin
• Galician: xove
• Istriot: zuvena
• Italian: giovine, giovane

• Ligurian: zoêno, zóveno
• Lombard: joven
• Occitan: jove, jouine
• Old French: juene
  • Middle French: ieune, jeune
    • French: French: jeune
• Portuguese: jovem
• Romanian: june
• Romansch: giuven, gioven
• Sardinian: giovanu, cioanu, giovunu
• Sicilian: giùvini
• Spanish: joven
• Venetian: xovane
• Walloon: djonne

References

• “iuvenis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• iuvenis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)