Lewis Short
pūbertas (noun F) : puber
* The age of manhood or maturity, puberty.
* Lit.: primis pubertatis annis,Just. 9, 6, 5: ab initio pubertatis,id. 23, 1, 8; 35, 2, 2; and: circa pubertatem,Plin. 25, 13, 95, § 154: pubertatis et primae adulescentiae tempus,Suet. Dom. 1; cf. Macr. S. 7, 7: differetur quaestio in tempus pubertatis,Dig. 37, 10, 1, § 11; 37, 10, 7, § 3.
* Transf.
* The signs of puberty, the beard, etc., Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 86; Plin. 7, 16, 17, § 76; 21, 26, 97, § 170.
* Of plants, soft down, pubescence, Plin. 23, praef. 4, § 7.
* Manhood, virility: inexhausta pubertas,Tac. G. 20, 2.
* Youth, young persons: pubertas canis suum honorem reddebat,Val. Max. 2, 1, 10: dux pubertatis,Vulg. Prov. 2, 17.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary