adolescens

== Latin == === Alternative forms === adulescēns === Etymology === Present participle of adolēscō. === Participle === adolēscēns (genitive adolēscentis); third-declension one-termination participle growing up, maturing increasing, augmenting ==== Declension ==== Third-declension participle. 1When used purely as an adjective. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “adolescens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “adolescens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin