iuvenis – Latin adjective declension

Adjective: iuvenis
Hyphenation:

Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular masc.	iuvenis
Singular fem.	iuvenis

Genitive

Singular masc.	iuvenis
Singular fem.	iuvenis

Dative

Singular masc.	iuvenī
Singular fem.	iuvenī

Accusative

Singular masc.	iuvenem
Singular fem.	iuvenem

Ablative

Singular masc.	iuvene
Singular fem.	iuvene

Vocative

Singular masc.	iuvenis
Singular fem.	iuvenis

Comparison

Comparative

iūnior; iuvenior

Sample Sentences

Near-synonyms: iuvenīlis, novus, novellus, recēns, adulēscēns
Diu inter primores iuvenum Romanorum silentium fuit (1924 translation by Benjamin Oliver Foster

The young Roman nobles were for a long time silent.) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 7.10.1.1]
Suadere etiam Prisco ne supra principem scanderet, ne Vespasianum senem triumphalem, iuvenum liberorum patrem, praeceptis coerceret. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 100 CE – 110 CE, Tacitus, Historiae 4.8.18]
Si quis grandis natu parens est, miserebitur senis, si quis iuvenis filius, miserebitur adolescentis. (If anyone is an aged parent, he will commiserate with the old; if anyone is a young son, he will commiserate with the young.) [before late 4th century CE, pseudo-Quintilian, Declamationes Maiores 9.23.12]

Adjectives inflected like iuvenis

iuvenis,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-u
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu
5. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō
7. Proto-Italic *juwō
8. Latin iuvenis
9. Inherited from Proto-Italic *juwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō (“young”). Cognate with Sanskrit युवन् (yúvan), Persian جوان (javân), Old Irish óc (early OIr: óac), Old English ġeong (whence English young). The Latin nominative singular form iuvenis is an innovation replacing expected *iuvō (compare Sanskrit युवा (yuvā)). The ending -is was introduced from i-stem nouns. However, in forms other than the nominative singular, iuvenis continues to be inflected in Latin as a consonant-stem noun. Compare canis from *ḱwṓ.
10. The second syllable shows no vowel weakening, even though *-e- in medial open syllables usually became Latin -i-. The -e- might have been retained by analogical influence from the antonym sen- (“old man”), or alternatively, from the suffixed forms iuventūs, iuventās. See: English Adjectives 'young'.

Verbs referencing "iuvenis"

French Adjectives jeune, Romanian Adjectives june, Catalan Adjectives jove, Italian Adjectives giovane, Asturian Adjectives xoven.