pubes
English
Etymology 1
From Latin pubes (“the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, the genitals”), from pubes, puber (“grown up, of mature age; of plants, downy, pubescent”); see puberty.
Pronunciation
Noun
pubes
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
pubes
Usage notes
It is not uncommon today for even educated people to be familiar with the back-formed sense of pubes and its singular, pube, while being unaware of the original sense, declension, and etymology. Whereas the original sense occurs mostly in medical English rather than lay English, the newer sense is widely encountered in casual online culture, despite that it is informal enough not to be used in formal-register lay vocabulary.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:pubic hair
Related terms
Further reading
- “pubes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “pubes”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Galician
Noun
pubes
Noun
pubes
Latin
Etymology 1
Possible connection with puer, pūpa, pūsus, putus.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpuː.bes/, [ˈpuːbɛs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.bes/, [ˈpuːbes]
Adjective
pūbes (genitive pūberis); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | pūbes | pūberēs | pūbera | ||
Genitive | pūberis | pūberum | |||
Dative | pūberī | pūberibus | |||
Accusative | pūberem | pūbes | pūberēs | pūbera | |
Ablative | pūbere | pūberibus | |||
Vocative | pūbes | pūberēs | pūbera |
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From pūbēs (“adult”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpuː.beːs/, [ˈpuːbeːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.bes/, [ˈpuːbes]
Noun
pūbēs f (genitive pūbis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pūbēs | pūbēs |
Genitive | pūbis | pūbium |
Dative | pūbī | pūbibus |
Accusative | pūbem | pūbēs pūbīs |
Ablative | pūbe | pūbibus |
Vocative | pūbēs | pūbēs |
Descendants
References
- “pubes1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pubes2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pubes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pubes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pubes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pubes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/uːbiz
- English non-lemma forms
- English noun forms
- English plurals in -es with singular in -is
- English pluralia tantum
- English 1-syllable words
- Rhymes:English/uːbz
- English irregular plurals ending in "-es"
- en:Hair
- Galician non-lemma forms
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