adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A juvenal bird.
2. 2
   A youth. obsolete

   "How canſt thou part ſadnes and melancholy, my tender Iuuenall?"

Adjective

1. 1
   Of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A male given name from Latin.
2. 2
   Decimus Junius Juvenalis, a Roman poet, active in the late 1st and early 2nd century CE, noted for a collection of poems called the Satires.

Synonyms

All synonyms

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Example

More examples

"During Christmas dinner, an immense nostalgia came over us as we remembered when Juvenal was alive."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).

Etymology 2

From Latin Iuvenālis.

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