iuvencus

From Proto-Italic *juwənkos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, equivalent to iuvenis +‎ -cus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /i̯uˈu̯en.kus/, [i̯uˈu̯ɛŋkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /juˈven.kus/, [juˈvɛŋkus]

iuvencus (feminine iuvenca, neuter iuvencum); first/second-declension adjective

1. young

First/second-declension adjective.

• iuvenculus

iuvencus m (genitive iuvencī); second declension

1. bullock
2. a young man

Second-declension noun.

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: giuncu
  • Romanian: junc
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: giovenco
  • Sicilian: jencu
• West Iberian
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: xovenco
    • Portuguese: juvenco
  • Spanish: juvenco

• “juvencus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “iuvencus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “iuvencus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers