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adolescent

English

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Etymology

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First attested ?1440, from Middle English adolescent, from Middle French adolescent or directly from Latin adolescentem, accusative form of adolescens, present participle of adolēscere (“to become adult, grow up”), from ad- (“to”) + alēscere (“to grow or become nourished”). The adjective first appeared in 1785.

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adolescent (comparative more adolescent, superlative most adolescent)

  2. Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
    • 1785, William Cowper, Tirocinium:
      Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.
    • 2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71:
      Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.

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Noun

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adolescent (plural adolescents)

  2. A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
    • 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 66:
      ‘A healthy adolescent might be expected to produce five hundred billion blood cells a day.’

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin adulēscentem.

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Adjective

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adolescent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adolescents)

  1. adolescent

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adolescent m or f by sense (plural adolescents)

  1. teenager
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Czech

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈadolɛst͡sɛnt]
  • Hyphenation: ado‧les‧cent

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adolescent m anim (female equivalent adolescentka)

  1. adolescent
    Synonyms: dospívající, puberťák

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Declension of adolescent (hard masculine animate)
singular plural
nominative adolescent adolescenti
genitive adolescenta adolescentů
dative adolescentovi, adolescentu adolescentům
accusative adolescenta adolescenty
vocative adolescente adolescenti
locative adolescentovi, adolescentu adolescentech
instrumental adolescentem adolescenty
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  • “adolescent”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French adolescent, from Latin adolēscēns.

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  • IPA(key): /ˌaː.doː.ləˈsɛnt/
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  • Hyphenation: ado‧les‧cent
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

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adolescent m or f (plural adolescenten, diminutive adolescentje n)

  1. adolescent
    Synonym: jongere

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Descendants

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  • → Indonesian: adolesen

French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin adolēscentem, present participle of adolēscō.

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  • IPA(key): /a.dɔ.lɛ.sɑ̃/ ~ /a.dɔ.le.sɑ̃/
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adolescent (feminine adolescente, masculine plural adolescents, feminine plural adolescentes)

  1. adolescent
    • 1866, Eugène Sue, L'alouette du casque:
      Au retour de Victoria, si belle de sa beauté de quinze ans, j’avais son âge ; je devins, quoique à peine adolescent, follement épris d’elle ; je cachai soigneusement cet amour, autant par timidité que par suite du respect que m’inspirait, malgré le fraternel attachement dont elle me donnait chaque jour des preuves, cette sérieuse jeune fille, qui rapportait du collège des druidesses je ne sais quoi d’imposant, de pensif et de mystérieux.
      When Victoria returned in her dazzling beauty of fifteen years I was of the same age and although hardly of the age of puberty myself, I fell distractedly in love with her. I carefully concealed my feelings, out of friendship as well as by reason of the respect that, despite the fraternal attachment of which she every day gave me fresh proof, that serious young maid, who brought with her from the college of the female druids an indescribably imposing, pensive and mysterious appearance, inspired in me.

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adolescent m (plural adolescents, feminine adolescente)

  1. adolescent
    • 1841, François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'outre-tombe:
      Je me mis à tirer l’horoscope de l’adolescente vendangeuse : vieillira-t-elle au pressoir, mère de famille obscure et heureuse ? Sera-t-elle emmenée les camps par un caporal ? Deviendra-t-elle la proie de quelque Don Juan ? La villageoise enlevée aime son ravisseur autant d’étonnement que d’amour ; il la transporte dans un palais de marbre sur le détroit de Messine, sous un palmier au bord d’une source, en face de la mer qui déploie ses flots d’azur, et de l’Etna qui jette des flammes.
      I set to drawing up the horoscope of the adolescent fruit-picker: will she grow old at the cider-press, the mother of an obscure but happy family? Will she be led off to the camps by some corporal? Will she fall prey to some Don Juan? The seduced village girl loves her ravisher as well as the astonishment of love; he transports her to a palace of marble on the Straits of Messina, beneath a palm-tree beside a fountain, facing the sea with azure wave, and Etna spouting flame.
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Verb

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adolēscent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of adolēscō

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin adolēscēns.[1] First attested in the 19th century.[2]

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adolescent m pers

  1. adolescent (a person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dziecko

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Declension of adolescent
singular plural
nominative adolescent adolescenci/adolescenty (deprecative)
genitive adolescenta adolescentów
dative adolescentowi adolescentom
accusative adolescenta adolescentów
instrumental adolescentem adolescentami
locative adolescencie adolescentach
vocative adolescencie adolescenci
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adjective
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  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “adolescent”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900–1927), “adolescent”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warsaw

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French adolescent.

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adolescent m (plural adolescenți)

  1. teenager

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative adolescent adolescentul adolescenti adolescentii
genitive-dative adolescent adolescentului adolescenti adolescentilor
vocative adolescentule adolescentilor
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