adulescentulus Latin · revision 31181

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adulēscentulus''' ''m'' (genitive adulēscentulī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the diminutive of [[m|la|adulēscēns|t=young man]], with the suffix [[m|la|-ulus]], first as an adjective “very young” and then as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The base is the participle of [[m|la|adolēscō|t=to grow up]], which de Vaan derives from an old stative ⟨*alēre⟩ “to be growing up” beside [[m|la|alō|t=to feed, raise]], from [[itc-pro|*ale-|t=to feed]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂el-|t=to feed, raise]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus is its first author in the TLL, who has the adjective in the ''Miles gloriosus'', where an old man's kindness is “quite youthful”, and ''meretrīcem adulēscentulam'', “a young courtesan”.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it is very youthful or quite young, and Terence has a father who left “a young daughter”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) As a noun it is a young man or mere youth;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis and Short note that Cicero calls himself ''adulēscentulus'' at twenty-seven.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary also gives a young recruit.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Köbler finds it in Hegesippus and in medieval texts.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has the adjective.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of a young daughter.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero calls himself ''adulēscentulus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|young man]], mere youth; a young recruit.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Very young, quite youthful.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[adulescentula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[adulēscēns]]

+ * [[adulēscentia]]

+ * [[adolēscō]]

+ * [[iuvenis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}