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iuvenis.

A youth, a young man, young woman, young adult (between ages 20-40), (older than an adulescens but younger than a senior/senex)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈjʊ.wɛ.nɪs]Classical-Latin[ˈjuː.ve.nis]

  1. A youth, a young man, young woman, young adult (between ages 20-40), (older than an adulescens but younger than a senior/senex)

    declension-3 · feminine · masculine
Where this word comes from

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 Inherited from Proto-Italic *juwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō (“young”). Cognate with Sanskrit युवन् (yúvan), Persian جوان (jawān /javân), Old Irish óc (early OIr: óac), Old English ġeong (whence English young). The Latin nominative singular form iuvenis is an innovation replacing expected *iuvō (compare Sanskrit युवा (yuvā)). The ending -is was introduced from i-stem nouns. However, forms other than the nominative singular continued to use consonant-stem endings. Compare canis from *ḱwṓ. The -e- in the second syllable is unexpected, since any short vowel in a medial open syllable was normally weakened to -i- in Latin. The -e- might have been taken by analogy from the antonym sen- (“old man”), or alternatively, from the related suffixed nouns iuventūs, iuventās.

adj[ˈjʊ.wɛ.nɪs]Classical-Latin[ˈjuː.ve.nis]

  1. youthful, young

    declension-3 · one-termination
Where this word comes from

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 Inherited from Proto-Italic *juwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō (“young”). Cognate with Sanskrit युवन् (yúvan), Persian جوان (jawān /javân), Old Irish óc (early OIr: óac), Old English ġeong (whence English young). The Latin nominative singular form iuvenis is an innovation replacing expected *iuvō (compare Sanskrit युवा (yuvā)). The ending -is was introduced from i-stem nouns. However, forms other than the nominative singular continued to use consonant-stem endings. Compare canis from *ḱwṓ. The -e- in the second syllable is unexpected, since any short vowel in a medial open syllable was normally weakened to -i- in Latin. The -e- might have been taken by analogy from the antonym sen- (“old man”), or alternatively, from the related suffixed nouns iuventūs, iuventās.

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