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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈpuː.beːs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈpuː.bes]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''pūbēs''' ''f'' (genitive pūbis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The origin is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) De Vaan considers [[sa|पुमंस्|tr=púmāṃs|t=male, man]], and the Oxford Latin Dictionary and Wiktionary compare [[puer]] “boy”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Walde–Hofmann thought the noun might be taken back from [[impūbēs]] “not having the signs of manhood”.^(TLL) [[pūblicus]] took its /ū/ from it, though it comes from [[populus]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In Classical Latin it was the adult population, the able-bodied men or a company, especially in poetry.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It was the age of puberty, as in Celsus, and the pubic region or the hair that appears at puberty, the sign of manhood, as in Celsus and Virgil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ The adjective ''pūbēs'', ''pūberis'' meant grown up or adult, from Cicero on, and of plants full of sap.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) English ''pubes'' and ''pubis'' were borrowed from it in anatomy.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses the adjective ''pūbēs'' “grown up”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it of the pubic hair.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1560s – English ''pubes'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # The adult population, the [[m|en|youth]], manpower.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # [[m|en|Puberty]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # The pubic region; the pubic hair.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[pūbertās]]
+ * [[pūbēscō]]
+ * [[impūbēs]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[populus]]
+ * [[pūmilus]]
+ * [[puer]]
+ * [[en|pubes]]
+ * [[en|pubis]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}