juvenilia
/ˌd͡ʒuvəˈnɪliə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…]rhyme was not his talent; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his “Juvenilia” or verses written in his youth, where his rhyme is always constrained and forced,[…]."
- "Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish."
- "Charlotte Brontë, between the ages of thirteen and twenty-three, created a secret fantasy world called Angria, a world that she constructed in hundreds of pages of tiny manuscripts that make up her juvenilia[…]."
- "Oh, this is what we permit ourselves, or what we used to permit ourselves, in our juvenilia. This is the stuff we pray desperately will not be found. This is what we later burn."
- "Alberto Arias does not actually use the term “juvenilia” for Tcherepnin's early works, but he too catalogues them separately from the rest of the composer's output, as “childhood works,” with only the briefest of indications of what this category contains."
Etymology
From Latin iuvenīlia, neuter plural of iuvenīlis (“of or pertaining to youth”). By surface analysis, juvenile + -ia
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: iuvenīlia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌd͡ʒuvəˈnɪliə/
- British English: /ˌd͡ʒuːvəˈnɪliə/