(adjective) : jŭvĕnis, is, (
* Comp. juvenior, for the more usual junior, Plin. Ep. 4, 8; App. M. 8, p. 210, 36) [Sanscr. yuvan, young].
* 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.
* 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.
* Juvenis (for juventus), the youth, the young men: lectus juvenis,Sil. 4, 219.