juvenal
pronunciation
How to pronounce juvenal in British English:
UK ['dʒu:vənəl]
How to pronounce juvenal in American English:
US ['dʒuvənəl]
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- Noun:
- Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140)
Word Origin
- juvenal
- 1580s (n.), 1630s (adj.), from Latin iuvenalis "of or belonging to youth," from iuvenis "a young person" (see young). The Roman satirist is Decimius Junius Juvenalis.
Example
- 1. Juvenal scourging woman , illustration from the sixth satire of juvenal , 1896 .
- 2. A healthy mind is in a healthy body . Juvenal , ancient roman satirist .
- 3. Juvenal would have said : difficile est satiram non scribere ( it is difficult not to write a satire ) .
- 4. That killing was planned by members of a hutu fascist elite , including men linked to agathe habyarimana , the wife of rwanda 's murdered dictator , juvenal .
- 5. He wants congo 's president , joseph kabila , to distance himself from hutu militias , including remnants of rwanda 's previous regime of juvenal habyarimana , and to rein in his own troops .