adj
Meaning 1
Before the age at which a person begins puberty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
prepubescent
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rhymes with -ɛsənt
noun
Meaning 2
A person who has not begun puberty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
(especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: prepubertal
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh2- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh2i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English pubescent English prepubescent From pre- + pubescent.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: impúber — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Finnish: alle murrosikäinen — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Finnish: esipuberteettinen — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Finnish: esimurrosikäinen — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- French: prépubère — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- French: impubère — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Greek: προεφηβικός (proefivikós) — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Italian: prepuberale — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Latin: impūbēs — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Portuguese: impúbere — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Russian: препуберта́тный (prepubertátnyj) — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Spanish: preadolescente — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Spanish: prepúber — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Spanish: impúbero — before the age at which a person begins puberty
- Spanish: impúber — before the age at which a person begins puberty