juvenal

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

juvenal

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

Noun

juvenal (plural juvenals)

1. A juvenal bird.
2. (obsolete) A youth.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I, Scene 2,^[1]

     How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my tender juvenal?

Related terms

• juvenile