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Where does “juvenal” come from?

juvenal (English) comes from Latin iuvenalis, from Latin iuvenis, from Proto-Italic *juwō.

juvenal (English): Of a young bird, that has its first flying...

Definitions

  1. Of a young bird, that has its first flying...

Ancestry of “juvenal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latiniuvenalisyouthful
2Latiniuvenisyoung; A youth, a young man, young woman, young...
3Proto-Italic*juwō—
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