pubescent

English

Etymology

From Middle French pubescent, from Latin pubescens (“to become hairy, downy, or an adult”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pjʊˈbɛs(ə)nt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

pubescent (comparative more pubescent, superlative most pubescent)

1. At or just after the age of puberty.
   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi

     […] the pubescent male brain isn't noted for its consistent engagement with reality […]

   • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 6 August 2020:

     The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.

2. (botany, zoology) Covered with down or fine hairs.

Derived terms

• mid-pubescent
• nonpubescent
• peripubescent
• postpubescent
• prepubescent
• pubescently
• pubescent oak
• subpubescent

Related terms

• puberty, pubescence

Translations

arriving at puberty

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: полово съзряващ (polovo sǎzrjavašt) Catalan: púber, pubescent Dutch: puberaal (nl) Finnish: murrosikäinen (fi) French: pubère (fr), pubescent (fr) Galician: pubescente (gl), púbere German: geschlechtsreif (de) Greek: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: pubescente (pt), púbere (pt) Romanian: pubescent (ro) Russian: половозре́лый (ru) m (polovozrélyj) Spanish: pubescente (es), (please verify) puberto (es) m

Noun

pubescent (plural pubescents)

1. A person going through puberty.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pubescent

Translations

person going through puberty

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Dutch: puber (nl) m Finnish: murrosikäinen (fi) French: please add this translation if you can German: Pubertierender m, Pubertierende f, Pubertier n (humorously) Greek: έφηβος (el) m (éfivos) Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: pubescent (ro) m Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• puberulent

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Adjective

pubescent (feminine pubescente, masculine plural pubescents, feminine plural pubescentes)

1. pubescent

Further reading

• “pubescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

pūbēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of pūbēscō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pubescent.

Adjective

pubescent m or n (feminine singular pubescentă, masculine plural pubescenți, feminine/neuter plural pubescente)

1. pubescent

Declension

Declension of pubescent

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	pubescent		pubescentă		pubescenți	pubescente
	definite	pubescentul		pubescenta		pubescenții	pubescentele
genitive- dative	indefinite	pubescent		pubescente		pubescenți	pubescente
	definite	pubescentului		pubescentei		pubescenților	pubescentelor