juvenis

jŭvĕnis, is, adj. ( 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.