pubes
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Etymology 1
From Latin pubes (“the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, the genitals”), from pubes, puber (“grown up, of mature age; of plants, downy, pubescent”); see puberty.
Pronunciation
Noun
pubes
Noun
pubes pl (plural only)
- (rare) The pubic hair.
- The pubic region.
Translations
The pubic hair
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Derived terms
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
pubes
Usage notes
- It is common for even educated people to be familiar with the back-formed sense of pubes and its singular, pube, while being unaware of the original sense, declension, and etymology. Whereas the original sense occurs mostly in medical English rather than lay English, the newer sense is widely encountered in colloquial speech, though avoided in formal-register lay vocabulary. Thus, although pubes in the sense of pubic hair has two equally valid pronunciations, the monosyllabic /pjuːbz/ is usually intended in everyday written communication.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:pubic hair
Related terms
Further reading
- “pubes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “pubes”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Noun
pubes
Noun
pubes
Etymology 1
Possible connection with puer, pūpus, pūsus, putus.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpuː.beːs/, [ˈpuːbeːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.bes/, [ˈpuːbes]
Adjective
pūbēs (genitive pūberis); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From pūbēs (“adult”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpuː.beːs/, [ˈpuːbeːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.bes/, [ˈpuːbes]
Noun
pūbēs f (genitive pūbis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Descendants
References
- “pubes1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pubes2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pubes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pubes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pubes”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pubes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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