juvenile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːvənaɪl/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːvənaɪl/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːvənəl/
Forms: form: more juvenile
form: most juvenile
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iuvenīlis (“youthful; juvenile”), from iuvenis (“young; a youth”) + -īlis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relationship or a pertaining to). Iuvenis is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”), from *h₂óyu (“long life; lifetime”) (from *h₂ey- (“age; life”)) + *h₁én (“in”).
Senses: examples: text: There are certain Climates, where the Mind ripens and attains ſooner to Perfection than in others: nay there are ſome Conſtitutions of Body, where the humours are ſo exactly mixt, that they form an admirable Temper; the Effects thereof are diſcoverable in the firſt Juvenile Years, and leave very fine Remains, even in a decrepit Age.
ref: [1716], [Abraham] de Wicquefort, “What Age is Proper for an Embassador”, in [John] Digby, transl., The Embassador and His Functions. […], London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC, page 54, column 1:
text: We should then be able to count on the labours of fifty thousand juvenile home missionaries, and the next generation would be able to speak from a happier experience than we, of "times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord."—From the Canada Sunday School Record.
ref: 1845 November, “How Boys and Girls may be Missionaries”, in The Juvenile Missionary Herald, volume III, London: Printed for and published by the Baptist Missionary Society, and sold by Houlston and Stoneman, […], →OCLC, page 257:
text: When juvenile offenders are spoken of, young thieves are usually intended; for an examination of the annals of crime will show that varied as are the offences of adults, those for which children are arraigned in a criminal court are almost invariably thefts more or less trivial; […]
ref: 1853, Mary Carpenter, “Characteristics and Classes”, in Juvenile Delinquents, Their Condition and Treatment, London: W. & F. G. Cash, (successors to C. Gilpin,) […], →OCLC, page 17:
text: [T]he juvenile justice system became firmly established as the legitimate institution for responding to juvenile delinquency and misconduct during 1900 and 1960.
ref: 1988, Edmund F. McGarrell, “Juvenile Justice in Change”, in Juvenile Correctional Reform: Two Decades of Policy and Procedural Change (SUNY Series in Critical Issues in Criminal Justice), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.
ref: 2024 September 6, David Zelman, “Understanding Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis -- the Basics”, in WebMD:
glosses: Young; not fully developed.
examples: text: Adde to this diſsipated and diſtracted ſtate of Miniſters, their private diſtreſſes and poverties, together with the publick neglect and indifferency of people toward them; who can wonder if they look pitifully one on another, which no jocoſe or juvenile drolings can relieve?
ref: 1659, John Gauden, chapter XXXI, in Ίερα Δακρυα [Hiera dakrya]. Ecclesiae Anglicanae Suspiria. The Tears, Sighs, Complaints, and Prayers of the Church of England: […], London: Printed by J[ohn] G[rismond] for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, book II (Searching the Causes and Occasions of the Church of England’s Decayes), page 251:
text: This is illuſtrated by a variety of examples; particularly by the attachment which we naturally form to inanimate objects; and by the pleaſure derived from hiſtoric ſcenes, from painting, and from the review of juvenile days.
ref: 1792 June, “Art. I. The Pleasures of Memory, a Poem, in Two Parts, by the Author of ‘An Ode to Superstition, with Some Other Poems.’ 4to. pp. 71. 3s. 6d. Boards. Cadell. 1792. [book review]”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume VIII, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, in Pall Mall, →OCLC, pages 122–123:
text: Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a form of rheumatoid arthritis that affects children under the age of 16[…]. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis impacts the larger joints of the body and is a chronic condition.
ref: 2005, Sidney Michael Trantham, “Diagnoses Commonly Associated with Childhood”, in Amy Wagenfeld, Jennifer Kaldenberg, editors, Foundations of Pediatric Practice for the Occupational Therapy Assistant, Thorofare, N.J.: SLACK Incorporated, →ISBN, page 85:
text: He indicated that Cheong should follow his actions, but Cheong was little tempted and chose not to engage in such a juvenile scene.
ref: 2013, Thomas Keneally, chapter 21, in Shame and the Captives, Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, →ISBN; trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Simon & Schuster, December 2015, →ISBN, page 197:
synonyms: word: infantile
word: juvey
word: puerile
word: babish
word: babyish
word: bairnish
word: childish
word: dootsie
word: hissy
word: lactifluous
word: infantile
word: infantine
word: immature
word: kiddish
word: juvenile
word: milky
word: puerile
glosses: Characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: antijuvenile
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvenile diabetes
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvenile hormone
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvenilely
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvenileness
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvenilise
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvenilize
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvenilism
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvenility
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvenilization
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvenoia
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvenoid
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: juvey
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: nonjuvenile
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: postjuvenile
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: post-juvenile
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: prejuvenile
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: subjuvenile
sense: Terms derived from juvenile (adjective)
word: unjuvenile
Related terms: juvenal
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juvenalia
juvenescence
juvenescent
juvenilia