adulescens

• adolescēns

From adolēscō +‎ -ēns with a phonological change from 'o' to 'u' in the antepenultimate syllable.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.dʊˈɫeːs.kẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.d̪uˈlɛʃ.ʃens]

adulēscēns (genitive adulēscentis, comparative adulēscentior); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. young, youthful
2. minor (of two boys)

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

adulēscēns m or f (genitive adulēscentis); third declension

1. a youth, a youngster; a young man, a lad; a young lady, a young woman, a maiden (likely between ages 14-21) (older than a puer but younger than a iuvenis)

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

The genitive plural is usually adulēscentium; the alternative form adulēscentum is also attested, though rare.^[1][2]

• adulescentulus

• “adulescens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “adulescens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• adulescens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • still quote a young (old) man: admodum adulescens, senex
    
  • he is a young man of great promise: adulescens alios bene de se sperare iubet, bonam spem ostendit or alii de adulescente bene sperare possunt
    
  • a promising youth: adulescens bonae (egregiae) spei
    
• “adulescens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers