iuventus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === juventūs === Etymology === From iuvenis (“young”) +‎ -tūs (abstract noun-forming suffix). Compare Proto-Celtic *yuwantūts. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [jʊˈwɛn.tuːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [juˈvɛn.tus] === Noun === iuventūs f (genitive iuventūtis); third declension the age of youth, youth Synonyms: iuventās, iuventa Antonym: senectūs (Can we date this quote? (Gaudemas igitur)) Gaudeamus igitur 4th century, St. Jerome, Vulgate, Psalm 42:4; Catholic Prayers at the Foot of the Altar of the Tridentine Mass per the Ordinary of the 1962 Roman Missal (Latin with English translation) ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “iuventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “juventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “juventus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.