iuventus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From iuvenis (“young”) + -tūs (abstract noun-forming suffix). Compare iuventās.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /i̯uˈu̯en.tuːs/, [i̯uˈu̯ɛn̪t̪uːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /juˈven.tus/, [juˈvɛn̪t̪us]
Noun
[edit]iuventūs f (genitive iuventūtis); third declension
- the age of youth, youth
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- After a pleasant youth
- 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)
- Et introibo ad altare Dei, ad Deum qui laetificat iuventutem meam.
- And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth. (Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner rev.) Link to Psalm 42 in parallel Latin Vulgate & English Douay-Rheims
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Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | iuventūs | iuventūtēs |
genitive | iuventūtis | iuventūtum |
dative | iuventūtī | iuventūtibus |
accusative | iuventūtem | iuventūtēs |
ablative | iuventūte | iuventūtibus |
vocative | iuventūs | iuventūtēs |
Descendants
[edit]- Aragonese: chuventud
- Asturian: xuventú
- Catalan: joventut
- English: Juventus
- Old French: jovent, jovente
- Friulian: zoventût
- Galician: xuventude
- Old Italian: gioventute, gioventude
- Occitan: joventut
- Portuguese: juventude
- Romansch: giuventetgna
- Sardinian: gioventudi, gioventura
- Sicilian: giuvintuti, giuvintù
- Spanish: juventud
- Venetan: zoventù, xoventù
References
[edit]- “iuventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- men of military age: qui arma ferre possunt or iuventus
- men of military age: qui arma ferre possunt or iuventus
- See under juventus