adulescentia
Latin
Etymology
adulēscēns + -ia
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.dʊ.ɫeːsˈkɛn.ti.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.d̪u.leʃˈʃɛn.t̪͡s̪i.a]
Noun
adulēscentia f (genitive adulēscentiae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | adulēscentia | adulēscentiae |
| genitive | adulēscentiae | adulēscentiārum |
| dative | adulēscentiae | adulēscentiīs |
| accusative | adulēscentiam | adulēscentiās |
| ablative | adulēscentiā | adulēscentiīs |
| vocative | adulēscentia | adulēscentiae |
Descendants
- → Albanian: adoleshencë
- → English: adolescence
- → French: adolescence
- → Italian: adolescenza
- → Portuguese: adolescência
- → Romanian: adolescență
- → Spanish: adolescencia
References
- “adulescentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adulescentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “adulescentia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the fires of youth have cooled: adulescentia deferbuit
- the fires of youth have cooled: adulescentia deferbuit