## Meanings
1. Relating to young people or children.
2. Childish or immature in behaviour.
3. A young person who is below the age of an adult, especially in legal terms.

## Examples
- The new law deals with juvenile crime.
- His juvenile jokes annoyed everyone at the meeting.
- The juvenile was sentenced to community service rather than prison.

## Antonyms
- adult
- mature
- nonjuvenile
- old
- senile

## Related Forms
- juvenal
- juvenalia
- juvenescence
- juvenescent
- juvenilia

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *h₂ey-
- Root: iuvenīlis
- Root: *h₂yuh₁en-

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iuvenīlis (“youthful; juvenile”), from iuvenis (“young; a youth”) + -īlis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relationship or a pertaining to). Iuvenis is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”), from *h₂óyu (“long life; lifetime”) (from *h₂ey- (“age; life”)) + *h₁én (“in”).

## AI Etymology
Juvenile is borrowed from Latin iuvenīlis (“youthful; juvenile”), from iuvenis (“young; a youth”) + -īlis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relationship or a pertaining to). Iuvenis is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”), from *h₂óyu (“long life; lifetime”) (from *h₂ey- (“age; life”)) + *h₁én (“in”). Important historical forms include Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-, Latin iuvenīlis, and Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁en-. In present-day use, it can mean relating to young people or children, or childish or immature in behaviour.

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