adulescens

== Latin == === Alternative forms === adolescēns === Etymology === From adolēscō +‎ -ēns with a phonological change from 'o' to 'u' in the antepenultimate syllable. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.dʊˈɫeːs.kẽːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.duˈlɛʃ.ʃens] === Adjective === adulēscēns (genitive adulēscentis, comparative adulēscentior); third-declension one-termination adjective young, youthful minor (of two boys) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension one-termination adjective. === Noun === adulēscēns m or f (genitive adulēscentis); third declension a youth, a youngster; a young man, a lad; a young lady, a young woman, a maiden (likely between ages 14-21) (older than a puer but younger than a iuvenis) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). The genitive plural is usually adulēscentium; the alternative form adulēscentum is also attested, though rare. ==== Derived terms ==== adulescentulus === References === “adulescens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “adulescens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “adulescens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “adulescens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers