Adolescence

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late Middle English: from French, from Latin adolescentia, from adolescere ‘grow to maturity’ (see adolescent).


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From Middle English adolescence, from Old French adolescence, from Latin adolēscentia, from adolēscēns(“young”); see adolescent.


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adolescence (n.)

"age following childhood, age of growing" (roughly the period from the 15th to the 21st year; or age 14 to 25 in males, 12 to 21 in females), early 15c., from Old French adolescence (13c.), from Latin adolescentia/adulescentia "youth, youthful people collectively," abstract noun from adulescentem "growing, youthful" (see adolescent (n.)). Adolescency (late 14c.) is slightly earlier.