YOUTH Copy link • YOUTHThe age of youth, pueritia: aetas puerilis (childhood, to the time when the young Roman assumed the toga virilis, in his seventeenth year. From this year to the forty-sixth or fiftieth, persons able to bear arms were called juniores, as opposed to seniores): adolescentia (from the seventeenth to the thirtieth, or even the fortieth year; the period in which the youth is ripening into the man): juventas, aetas integra or confirmata (the vigor of manhood; from the thirtieth to the fortieth or fiftieth year): juventas (youth in its first bloom): juventa (rare in prose; the whole period, years of youth): in one’s youth, in pueritia: in adolescentia (Suet., Claud., 41); but usually by puer or adolescens (when a boy, when quite a youth): from youth up, a puero: a parvo: a parvulo: a pueris: a parvis: a parvulis (the last three of several, or when one speaks of himself in the plur. number); ab adolescentia: ab adolescentulo: from earliest youth, a primis temporibus aetatis: a prima, or ab ineunte aetate: ab initio aetatis: a prima or ab ineunte adolescentia: a primo juventae flore: from tender youth, a prima infantia: a tenero: a teneris, ut Graeci dicunt, unguiculis (ἐξ ὀνύχων, in epistolary style; Cic., ad Div., 1, 6, 2; not to be used in other prose): the flower of youth, flos aetatis. aetas florens: flos juventae: aetas integra: to be in the (first) flower of youth, in (prima) flore aetatis esse: aetate florere: to be stili in the flower of youth, integra esse aetate: to die in the very flower of youth, in ipso aetatis flore exstingui: in primo flore exstingui: medio in spatio integrae aetatis eripi rebus humanis. Young persons, pueri, puellae (boys, girls): adolescentes, virgines (youths, young women): juventus, juvenes (young persons of both sexes): juniores (young men able to bear arms; opposed to seniores; Vid: above): the youth of both sexes, juvenes utriusque sexus.