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adulescentes

adulescentes is a Latin form of adulescens, meaning “young man; young”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 86 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.28.3: Hoc se labore durant adulescentes atque hoc genere venationis exercent, et qui plurimos ex his interfecerunt, relatis in publicum cornibus, quae sint testimonio, magnam ferunt laudem.

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.94: … rat, adfert certe senectus. Quae vero aetas longa est, aut quid omnino homini longum? nonne Módo pueros, modo ádulescentes ín cursu a tergo ínsequens Néc opinantis ádsecuta est senectus? sed quia ultra nihil habemus, hoc longum dici …

Plautus, Mercator 5.4.987: Adulescentes rei agendae isti magis solent operam dare.

All forms of adulescens (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.