jŭvĕnis — Lewis & Short
jŭvĕnis, is, adj. (
I comp. juvenior, for the more usual junior, Plin. Ep. 4, 8; App. M. 8, p. 210, 36) [Sanscr. yuvan, young].
I Adj.:
ut juveni primum virgo deducta marito,Tib. 3, 4, 31:
est mihi filius juvenis,Quint. 4, 2, 42:
juvenes anni,Ov. M. 7, 295:
juvenes premere Medos,Juv. 7, 132:
ovis juvenis,Col. 7, 3, 6:
deus,Calp. Ecl. 7, 6.— Comp.:
toto junior anno,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 44:
dis junioribus permisit ut, etc.,Cic. Univ. 13.—
II Subst.: jŭvĕnis, is, comm., one who is in the flower of his or her age (mostly of persons older than adolescentes and younger than seniores, i. e. between twenty and forty years), a young person, a young man, a young woman:
infirmitas puerorum, et ferocitas juvenum, et gravitas jam constantis aetatis,Cic. de Sen. 10, 33:
simul ac juvenes esse coeperunt,id. Off. 2, 13, 45:
aetas juvenum (opp. senum),id. Cat. 19, 67:
juvenem egregium praestanti munere donat,Verg. A. 5, 361:
juvenes fervidi,Hor. C. 4, 13, 26:
nefas si juvenis vetulo non assurrexerat,Juv. 13, 55:
telluris juvenes = terrae filios,Hor. C. 2, 12, 7:
clamosus juvenem pater excitat,Juv. 4, 191; so,
juvenes ipsius consulis,sons, id. 8, 262.—In comp.:
edicitur delectus: juniores ad nomina respondent,Liv. 3, 41, 1; 6, 2, 6: junior (opp. senior), the son, the younger of the name (late Lat.), Ambros. Enar. in Psa. 45, 31:
eos (milites) ad annum quadragesimum sextum juniores, supraque eum annum seniores appellavit (Servius Tullius),Gell. 11, 28, 1.—Fem.:
Cornelia juvenis est,Plin. 7, 36, 36, § 122:
pulchra,Phaedr. 2, 2, 5; Ov. A. A. 1, 63;
amica,Claud. in Eutr. 2, praef. 23.—
B Juvenis (for juventus), the youth, the young men:
lectus juvenis,Sil. 4, 219.