The corpus record — Latin

juvencus

young

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Eclogues 5 · 11.02/10k
Georgicon 13 · 9.19/10k
Ibis 3 · 7.63/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Epodon 2 · 6.65/10k
de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
In Eutropium 4 · 5.57/10k
Hannibal 1 · 4.89/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
Phaedra 3 · 4.22/10k

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. jŭvencus — Lewis & Short

jŭvencus, a, um (

I gen. plur. juvencūm, Verg. A. 9, 609), adj. contr. from juvenicus, from juvenis, young (mostly poet.): ecus, Lucr. 5, 1074: gallinae, Plin. 10, 53, 74, § 146.—More freq.,

II Subst.

A jŭvencus, i, m.

1 Sc. bos, a young bullock: aspice, aratra jugo referunt suspensa juvenci, Verg. E. 2, 66; 7, 11; id. A. 6, 38: est in juvencis, est in Equis patrum virtus, Hor. C. 4, 4, 30: fessi juvenci, Ov. M. 14, 648; Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 6.—

b Poet. transf., neat's leather: clipeum vestisse juvenco, Stat. Th. 3, 591.—

2 Sc. homo, a young man: te suis matres metuunt juvencis, Hor. C. 2, 8, 21.—

B jŭvenca, ae, f.

1 (Sc. bos.) A young cow, heifer: pascitur in magna Sila formosa juvenca, Verg. G. 3, 219; Hor. C. 2, 5, 6; id. Ep. 1, 3, 36; Juv. 6, 49.—

2 Sc. femina, a girl: Graia, i. e. Helen, Ov. H. 5, 117; Val. Fl. 4, 350.

2. Jŭvencus — Lewis & Short

Jŭvencus, i, m.,

I a priest in Spain in the time of Constantine the Great, who made a metrical version of the four Gospels, Hier. Ep. 70, 5 (I. p. 430 Vall.); v. Teuffel, Röm. Lit. p. 912 sq.

3. juvencus — Walde–Hofmann

juvencus, 5; m. und íuvenca, -ae f. „junger Stier bzw. junge Kuh“; dicht. (aber auch rom., Meyer-Lübke n. 4640) „junger Mensch bzw. Mädchen“ (seit Varro und Catull, rom., ebenso éuvenculus seit Itala [-a seit Tert.] und *iuzencellus; vgl. noch éusencàrius [negötiätor] Inschr., iuvenculesco Ambr., ferner EN. fuvencius, -ätus usw.): aus *uupkös = u. iveka (d, i. iu(v)e(n)ca, nicht i- aus *ju-, Brugmann I* 108) … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. juvencus, p. 767]

In the wild

iuvenca Ovid, Remedia Amoris 633
iuvenci Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.2.2
iuvenca Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.485
iuuenci Silius Italicus, Punica 5.132
iuvenci Propertius, Elegiae 3.19.11
iuvenco Ovid, Amores 1.3.23

6 of 201 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. iuvencus (scan pp. 331-332; entry #851). Root candidates: *juwnko-, *juwen-, *iuwen-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. juvencus (scan p. 767; entry #1454). Root candidates: *ju-, *junhizan-.

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