jove

See also: Jove and jőve

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin iuvenis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈʒu.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʒo.və]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʒo.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒo.ve]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ˈʒo.βe]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Adjective

jove m or f (masculine and feminine plural joves or (found in part of Western Catalan, including all of Valencia, as well as in Ibiza) jóvens)

1. young

   Antonym: vell

   (idiomatic) gent jove, pa tou ― young people have little desire to strive and they want things easy (literally, “young people, soft bread”) (used either to complain about or to excuse young people's less experience or understanding)

Derived terms

• enjovenir
• rejovenir

Related terms

• joventut

Noun

jove m or f by sense (plural joves or (found in part of Western Catalan, including all of Valencia, as well as in Ibiza) jóvens)

1. young person, adolescent

   la jove més polida de Menorca ― the prettiest young woman in Minorca

Noun

jove f (plural joves or (found in part of Western Catalan, including all of Valencia, as well as in Ibiza) jóvens)

1. daughter-in-law

   Synonym: nora

Coordinate terms

• gendre

Further reading

• “jove”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “jove”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “jove” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “jove”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Occitan

Alternative forms

• joeine, joine (Auvergne)
• joine (Languedoc)
• jòune (Limousin)
• joine, joeine, jouine (Provençal)
• joine, joeine (Vivaro-Alpine)

Etymology

From Old Occitan joven, from Latin iuvenis.

Pronunciation

• (Languedoc) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒube/
• (Niçard) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuve/

• Audio (Languedoc):

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Adjective

jove m (feminine singular jove, masculine plural joves, feminine plural joves)

1. young

Related terms

• jovença
• jovencèl
• jovenet
• joveneta
• jovenisme
• jovenòme
• jovent
• joventut

Further reading

• "jove" - Diccionari de la Lenga Occitana (pg. 358)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

jove (Cyrillic spelling јове)

1. inflection of jova:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural