# pubes
## English
### Etymology 1

From Latin pubes (“the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, the genitals”), from pubes, puber (“grown up, of mature age; of plants, downy, pubescent”); see puberty.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpjuːbiːz/
* Rhymes: -uːbiːz

#### Noun

pubes
* plural of pubis (“pubic bones”)

#### Noun

pubes pl (plural only)
* (rare) The pubic hair.
* The pubic region.

##### Translations
#### Derived terms

* face pubes

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pjuːbz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːbz

#### Noun

pubes
* plural of pube

##### Usage notes

* It is common for even educated people to be familiar with the back-formed sense of pubes and its singular, pube, while being unaware of the original sense, declension, and etymology. Whereas the original sense occurs mostly in medical English rather than lay English, the newer sense is widely encountered in colloquial speech, though avoided in formal-register lay vocabulary. Thus, although pubes in the sense of pubic hair has two equally valid pronunciations, the monosyllabic /pjuːbz/ is usually intended in everyday written communication.

##### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:pubic hair

##### Related terms

* puberty
* pubic

##### Further reading

* “pubes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pubes”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* EPUBs, epubs

## Galician
### Noun

pubes
* plural of pube (pubic bones)

### Noun

pubes
* plural of pube (crab lice)

## Latin
### Etymology 1

Possible connection with puer, pūpus, pūsus, putus.

#### Alternative forms

* pūber
* pūbis

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpuː.beːs/, [ˈpuːbeːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpu.bes/, [ˈpuːbes]

#### Adjective

pūbēs (genitive pūberis); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)
* adult, grown-up
* pubescent
* ripe
* downy (of plants)

##### Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

##### Derived terms

* pūbertās
* pūbēscō
* impūbēs

##### Descendants

* → Catalan: púber
* → French: pubère
* → Italian: pubere
* → Dutch: puber
* → Portuguese: púbere
* → Spanish: púber

### Etymology 2

From pūbēs (“adult”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpuː.beːs/, [ˈpuːbeːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpu.bes/, [ˈpuːbes]

#### Noun

pūbēs f (genitive pūbis); third declension
* youth
* youthfulness
* pubic hair

##### Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

##### Descendants

* Italian: pube
* French: pubis
* Portuguese: pube, pubes, púbis

### References

* “pubes1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “pubes2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “pubes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* pubes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “pubes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “pubes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin