iuvenca

iuvenca:

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [jʊˈwɛŋ.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [juˈvɛŋ.ka]

iuvencā:

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [jʊˈwɛŋ.kaː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [juˈvɛŋ.ka]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

iuvenca

1. inflection of iuvencus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

iuvencā

1. ablative feminine singular of iuvencus

From a deadjectival noun itself from Proto-Italic *juwənkos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós

iuvenca f (genitive iuvencae); first declension

1. a young cow, heifer

   Synonyms: būcula, iūnīx

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.103–104:

     dēpositā sequitur taurus feritāte iuvencam,
     quem tōtī saltūs, quem nemus omne tremit.

     Having put aside his ferocity, the bull follows the heifer –
     [that same bull at] whom entire forests, [at] whom every pasture trembles!

2. a young woman

First-declension noun.

• Albanian: gjuvengë
• Aromanian: giuncã
• Italian: giovenca
• Neapolitan: jenca
• Romanian: juncă

• “iuvenca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “iuvenca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317