Lewis & Short

Parsing inflected forms may not always work as expected. If the following does not give the correct word, try Latin Words or Perseus.

jŭvĕnis, is, adj. (comp. juvenior, for the more usual junior, Plin. Ep. 4, 8; App. M. 8, p. 210, 36) [Sanscr. yuvan, young].

  1. I. Adj.: ut juveni primum virgo deducta marito, Tib. 3, 4, 31: est mihi filius juvenis, Quint. 4, 2, 42: juvenes anni, Ov. M. 7, 295: juvenes premere Medos, Juv. 7, 132: ovis juvenis, Col. 7, 3, 6: deus, Calp. Ecl. 7, 6.
    Comp.: toto junior anno, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 44: dis junioribus permisit ut, etc., Cic. Univ. 13.
  2. II. Subst.: jŭvĕnis, is, comm., one who is in the flower of his or her age (mostly of persons older than adolescentes and younger than seniores, i. e. between twenty and forty years), a young person, a young man, a young woman: infirmitas puerorum, et ferocitas juvenum, et gravitas jam constantis aetatis, Cic. de Sen. 10, 33: simul ac juvenes esse coeperunt, id. Off. 2, 13, 45: aetas juvenum (opp. senum), id. Cat. 19, 67: juvenem egregium praestanti munere donat, Verg. A. 5, 361: juvenes fervidi, Hor. C. 4, 13, 26: nefas si juvenis vetulo non assurrexerat, Juv. 13, 55: telluris juvenes = terrae filios, Hor. C. 2, 12, 7: clamosus juvenem pater excitat, Juv. 4, 191; so, juvenes ipsius consulis, sons, id. 8, 262.
    In comp.: edicitur delectus: juniores ad nomina respondent, Liv. 3, 41, 1; 6, 2, 6: junior (opp. senior), the son, the younger of the name (late Lat.), Ambros. Enar. in Psa. 45, 31: eos (milites) ad annum quadragesimum sextum juniores, supraque eum annum seniores appellavit (Servius Tullius), Gell. 11, 28, 1.
    Fem.: Cornelia juvenis est, Plin. 7, 36, 36, § 122: pulchra, Phaedr. 2, 2, 5; Ov. A. A. 1, 63; amica, Claud. in Eutr. 2, praef. 23.
    1. B. Juvenis (for juventus), the youth, the young men: lectus juvenis, Sil. 4, 219.