adulescentia Latin · revision 30681

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂el-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [a.dʊ.ɫeːsˈkɛn.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [a.du.leʃˈʃɛn.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adulēscentia''' ''f'' (genitive adulēscentiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''adolēscentia''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|adulēscēns|-ia|t1=young person]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The noun is the present participle of [[m|la|adolēscō|t=to grow up]], which de Vaan lists with [[alō|t=to nourish]], from [[itc-pro|*ale/o-|t=to feed]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂el-]], cognate with [[sga|ailid|t=feeds, raises]] and [[got|𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽|tr=alan|t=to grow up]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Bacchides'': ''fēcī ego istaec itidem in adulēscentiā'', “I did the same things in my youth”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Adulēscentia'' is the time of life of the ''adulēscēns'', which Lewis & Short put between boyhood and full manhood, from about the fifteenth to the thirtieth year.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means youthfulness, often with the notion of youth's impulsiveness (''Rhetorica ad Herennium''), and, as if personified or collectively, youth and young people: Terence's “I never thought that fault belonged to youth”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ English ''adolescence'' (early 15th century) came through Old French from the Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''in adulēscentiā''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of youth as a whole.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English [[m|en|adolescence]], through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|youth]], young manhood (roughly from 15 to 30).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Youthfulness; youthful impulsiveness.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Young people, the young.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[adulēscēns]]

+ * [[adolēscō]]

+ * [[alō]]

+ * [[en|adolescence]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}