iuventus

• juventūs

From iuvenis (“young”) +‎ -tūs (abstract noun-forming suffix). Compare Proto-Celtic *yuwantūts.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [jʊˈwɛn.tuːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [juˈvɛn.tus]

iuventūs f (genitive iuventūtis); third declension

1. the age of youth, youth

   Synonyms: iuventās, iuventa

   Antonym: senectūs

   • (Can we date this quote? (Gaudemas igitur)) Gaudeamus igitur

     Post iucundam iuventutem

     After a pleasant youth

   • 4th century, St. Jerome, Vulgate, Psalm 42:4; Catholic Prayers at the Foot of the Altar of the Tridentine Mass per the Ordinary of the 1962 Roman Missal (Latin with English translation)

     Et introibo ad altare Dei, ad Deum qui laetificat iuventutem meam.

     And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth. (Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner rev.) Link to Psalm 42 in parallel Latin Vulgate & English Douay-Rheims

Third-declension noun.

• “iuventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “juventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “juventus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • men of military age: qui arma ferre possunt or iuventus