英语词汇adult的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	adult
词源	adult. The Latin adolescere means “to grow up.” The past par- ticiple of this word, adultus, gave us our word adult while its present participle, adolescens, gave us adolescent. Adolescent seems to have first been recorded in 1440, about a century be- fore adult.
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