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juvenal en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).

Meanings

1. Of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.

Deriveds

postjuvenal

juvenal en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).

Meanings

1. A juvenal bird.
2. (obsolete) A youth.
   • How canſt thou part ſadnes and melancholy, my tender Iuuenall? c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], signature B2, recto:

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Relateds

juvenile