juvenal
See also: Juvenal
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).
Adjective
editjuvenal
Derived terms
editNoun
editjuvenal (plural juvenals)
- A juvenal bird.
- (obsolete) A youth.
- 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; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], signature B2, recto, line 8:
- How canſt thou part ſadnes and melancholy, my tender Iuuenall?