adulescens

adulēscēns (not adol-), ntis

P. of adolesco, adj.with comp, growing, near maturity, young, youthful : admodum: adulescentior Academia, younger : homines, Cs.: filia. — As subst, m . and f a youth, young man or woman (between pueritia and senectus): adulescentes bonā indole praediti: optuma, T.: Brutus adulescens, junior , Cs.