adulescentia

Latin

Etymology

adulēscēns +‎ -ia

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.du.leːsˈken.ti.a/, [äd̪ʊɫ̪eːs̠ˈkɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.du.leʃˈʃen.t͡si.a/, [äd̪uleʃˈʃɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

adulēscentia f (genitive adulēscentiae); first declension

1. youth, youthfulness, young manhood

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	adulēscentia	adulēscentiae
genitive	adulēscentiae	adulēscentiārum
dative	adulēscentiae	adulēscentiīs
accusative	adulēscentiam	adulēscentiās
ablative	adulēscentiā	adulēscentiīs
vocative	adulēscentia	adulēscentiae

Descendants

• → English: adolescence
• → French: adolescence
• → Italian: adolescenza
• → Portuguese: adolescência
• → Romanian: adolescență
• → Spanish: adolescencia

References

• “adulescentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “adulescentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• adulescentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the fires of youth have cooled: adulescentia deferbuit