adulescentia

adulescentia

Latin

Etymology

adulēscēns +‎ -ia

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.du.leːsˈken.ti.a/, [äd̪ʊɫ̪eːs̠ˈkɛn̪t̪iä]
• (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.

Case	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
• → 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the fires of youth have cooled: adulescentia deferbuit