pubertas

pūbertas, ātis, f. [puber], the age of manhood or maturity, puberty.

I.

Lit.:

primis pubertatis annis,

Just. 9, 6, 5:

ab initio pubertatis,

id. 23, 1, 8; 35, 2, 2; and:

circa pubertatem,

Plin. 25, 13, 95, § 154:

pubertatis et primae adulescentiae tempus,

Suet. Dom. 1; cf. Macr. S. 7, 7:

differetur quaestio in tempus pubertatis,

Dig. 37, 10, 1, § 11; 37, 10, 7, § 3.—

II.

Transf.

A.

The signs of puberty, the beard, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 86; Plin. 7, 16, 17, § 76; 21, 26, 97, § 170.—

2.

Of plants, soft down, pubescence, Plin. 23, praef. 4, § 7.—

B.

Manhood, virility:

inexhausta pubertas,

Tac. G. 20, 2.—

C.

Youth, young persons:

pubertas canis suum honorem reddebat,

Val. Max. 2, 1, 10:

dux pubertatis,

Vulg. Prov. 2, 17.