The corpus record — Latin

juventa

juventa · f

the age of youth, youth

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Where it lives

Carmina Omnia 1 · 39.06/10k
Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Cento Nuptialis 2 · 14.66/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
Parentalia 3 · 11.54/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 2 · 7.61/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 5 · 6.59/10k
Silvae 15 · 5.99/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 3 · 5.44/10k

Densest 12 of 85 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jŭventa — Lewis & Short

jŭventa, ae, f.id.,

I the age of youth, youth (mostly post-Aug. for the class. juventus).

I Lit.: membra decora juventā, Verg. A. 4, 559: prima a parte juventae, Cic. Att. poët. 2, 3, 3: Euryalus forma insignis, viridique juventa, Verg. A. 5, 295; Ov. M. 4, 17; 6, 719; 10, 84: non ita se a juventa eum gessisse, Liv. 35, 42: qua capta juventa Hippia, Juv. 6, 103: Livia, prima sua juventa ex Nerone gravida, Plin. 10, 55, 76, § 154: elephantorum juventa a sexagesimo anno incipit, id. 8, 10, 10, § 28: nitidus juventā (of the snake), Verg. G. 3, 437.—Of plants, Plin. 16, 23, 35, § 86.—Poet., youth, young people: moderator juventae, Mart. 2, 90, 1.—

II Personified, the goddess of youth, Ov. M. 7, 241; id. P. 1, 10, 12; cf. the foll. art.

In the wild

iuventam Tacitus, Annales 3.p16
iuventa Vergil, Aeneid 5.430
iuventae Tertullian, De Anima 29
iuventa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.11.p5
iuventae Lucan, Pharsalia 3.727
iuventa Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.759

6 of 276 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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