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.
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.