pubes

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.

• IPA^(key): /pjuːbiz/
• Rhymes: -uːbiz

pubes

1. plural of pubis; pubic bones.

pubes pl (plural only)

1. The pubic hair.
2. The pubic region.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːbz/
• Rhymes: -uːbz

pubes

1. plural of pube

• It is common for 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.

• See also Thesaurus:pubic hair

• puberty
• pubic

• pubes in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “pubes”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• EPUBs, epubs

pubes

1. plural of pube (pubic bones)

pubes

1. plural of pube (crab lice)

Possible connection with puer, pūpa, pūsus, putus.

• pūber
• pūbis

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.bes/, [ˈpuːbɛs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.bes/, [ˈpuːbes]

pūbes (genitive pūberis); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)

1. adult, grown-up
2. pubescent
3. ripe
4. downy (of plants)

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

• pūbertās
• pūbēscō
• impūbēs

• Italian: pubere
• → Dutch: puber
• → Portuguese: púbere
• → Spanish: púber

From pūbēs (“adult”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.beːs/, [ˈpuːbeːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.bes/, [ˈpuːbes]

pūbēs f (genitive pūbis); third declension

1. youth
2. youthfulness
3. pubic hair

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• Italian: pube
• Portuguese: pube, pubes, púbis

• “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