youth Copy link Outline I. The age of youth1. jŭventus, ūtis, f.2. jŭventa3. jŭventas (poet.)4. ădŏlescentia (ripening y., earlier than juventus strictly, but used generally)5. puĕrĭtia (boyhood)6. aetas, ātis, f.II. A body of youthIII. A youth, young man • youth: I. The age of youth: 1. jŭventus, ūtis, f.: things which are done in y. and strength, quae juventute et viribus geruntur, Cic. Sen. 6, 15. 2. jŭventa: he had not so borne him from his y., non ita se a juventa eum gessisse, Liv. 35, 42: hot tempered in y., calidus j., Hor. Od. 3, 14, 27. 3. jŭventas (poet.): active y., levis j., Hor. Od. 2, 11, 6. 4. ădŏlescentia (ripening y., earlier than juventus strictly, but used generally): old age steals upon y. more quickly than y. upon boyhood, citius adolescentiae senectus quam pueritiae adolescentia obrepit, Cic. Sen. 2, 4: in early y., ineunte a id. Off. 1, 32, 117: from the earliest y., jam a prima adolescentia, id. Fam. 1, 9, 23. 5. puĕrĭtia (boyhood): from y. upwards, a p., Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 10. 6. aetas, ātis, f.: (determined by the context to mean youth): the inexperience of early y., ineuntis aetatis inscientia, Cic. Off. 1, 34, 122: the flower of y., flos aetatis, id. Phil. 2, 2, 3: things which his y. allowed, quae ipsius ae. pertulit, id. Verr. 1, 12, 33. Phr.: from y. up, a puero, pueris (acc. to the number sing. or plur.): from tender y., ab infantia: Tac.: the years of y., juvenes anni, Ov. M. 7, 295. II. A body of youth: jŭventus: all the y. had assembled, omnis j. convenerat, Caes. B. G. 3, 16: the Trojan y., Trojana j., Virg. Aen. 1, 467. III. A youth, young man: juvenis, adolescens, puer. Of these three juvenis is older than adolescens, puer younger; and this last, though used of persons as old as twenty, seems meant in such cases to emphasize their youthfulness: v. young.