iuventus

Latin

Alternative forms

• juventūs

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-

Proto-Indo-European *-u

Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō

Proto-Italic *juwō

Latin iuvenis

Proto-Indo-European *-tuHts

Latin -tūs

Latin iuventūs

From iuvenis (“young”) + -tūs (abstract noun-forming suffix). Compare Proto-Celtic *yuwantūts.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [jʊˈwɛn.tuːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [juˈvɛn.tus]

Noun

iuventūs f (genitive iuventūtis); third declension

1. the age of youth, youth

   Synonyms: iuventās, iuventa

   Antonym: senectūs

   • (Can we date this quote? (Gaudemas igitur)) Gaudeamus igitur

     Post iucundam iuventutem

     After a pleasant youth

   • 4th 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)

     Et introibo ad altare Dei, ad Deum qui laetificat iuventutem meam.

     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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	iuventūs	iuventūtēs
genitive	iuventūtis	iuventūtum
dative	iuventūtī	iuventūtibus
accusative	iuventūtem	iuventūtēs
ablative	iuventūte	iuventūtibus
vocative	iuventūs	iuventūtēs

Descendants

• Aragonese: chuventud
• Asturian: xuventú
• Catalan: joventut, jovetut
• English: Juventus
• Old French: jovent, jovente
• Friulian: zoventût
• Galician: xuventude
• Old Italian: gioventute, gioventude
  • Italian: gioventù
  • → Ladino: jyovintud (גﬞובﬞינטוד)
• Occitan: joventut
• Portuguese: juventude
• Romansh: giuventetgna
• Sardinian: gioventudi, gioventura
• Sicilian: giuvintuti, giuvintù
• Spanish: juventud
• Venetan: zoventù, xoventù

References

• “iuventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “juventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “juventus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • men of military age: qui arma ferre possunt or iuventus