The corpus record — Latin

juvenilis

juvenilis · adj

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Where it lives

De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

jŭvĕnīlis — Lewis & Short

jŭvĕnīlis (jŭvĕnāl-), e, adj.id.,

I of or belonging to youth, youthful, juvenile.

I Lit.: juvenilis quaedam dicendi impunitas et licentia. Cic. Brut. 91, 316: redundantia, id. Or. 30, 108: sumptis Priamum juvenalibus armis vidit. Verg. A. 2, 518: corpus, id. ib. 5, 475: valida ac juvenilia membra, Juv. 11, 5: anni, Ov. M. 8, 632: caput, id. ib. 1, 564: femur, id. Am. 1, 5, 22: suis semper juvenilior annis, id. M. 14, 639: sidus juvenile nepotes, shining among the youths like stars, a youthful constellation, id. Tr. 2, 167.—

II Transf.

A Lively, cheerful: integer et laetus laeta et juvenilia lusi, Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 7.—

B Violent, strong: praeceps juvenile pericli, Stat. S. 1, 4, 50.—Hence, advv.

1 jŭvĕnīle, youthfully: adhuc juvenile vagans, Stat. S. 3, 5, 25.—

2 jŭvĕnīlĭter, youthfully, after the manner of youth: exsultare, Cic. de Sen. 4, 10 (in Ovid only juvenaliter; v. juvenalis fin.).

In the wild

iuvenilium Seneca, De Clementia 1.11.1
iuvenilia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8.74.21
iuveniliter Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.12.11
iuveniliter Cicero, De Senectute 10
iuveniliter Tacitus, Annales 4.p10
iuvenilia Statius, Silvae 5.3.191

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.