iuventus

iuventus

Latin

Etymology

From iuvenis (“young”) +‎ -tūs (abstract noun-forming suffix). Compare iuventās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /i̯uˈu̯en.tuːs/, [i̯uˈu̯ɛn̪t̪uːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /juˈven.tus/, [juˈvɛn̪t̪us]

Noun

iuventūs f (genitive iuventūtis); third declension

1. the age of youth, youth

   Synonyms: iuventās, iuventa

   Antonym: senectūs

   • (Can we date this quote?) Gaudeamus igitur

     Post iucundam iuventutem

     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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iuventūs	iuventūtēs
Genitive	iuventūtis	iuventūtum
Dative	iuventūtī	iuventūtibus
Accusative	iuventūtem	iuventūtēs
Ablative	iuventūte	iuventūtibus
Vocative	iuventūs	iuventūtēs

Descendants

• Aragonese: chuventud
• Asturian: xuventú
• Catalan: joventut
• English: Juventus
• Old French: jovent, jovente
• Friulian: zoventût
• Galician: xuventude
• Old Italian: gioventute, gioventude
  • Italian: gioventù
  • → Ladino: jyovintud (גﬞובﬞינטוד)
• Occitan: joventut
• Portuguese: juventude
• Romansch: giuventetgna
• Sardinian: gioventudi, gioventura
• Sicilian: giuvintuti, giuvintù
• Spanish: juventud
• Venetian: zoventù, xoventù

References

• “iuventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • men of military age: qui arma ferre possunt or iuventus
    
• See under juventus