pubes

English

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pubes

  1. plural of pubis; pubic bones.
  2. (plural only) The pubic hair.
  3. (plural only) The pubic region.

Etymology 2

see pube

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pubes

  1. plural of pube
Usage notes

It is not uncommon today for even 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 casual online culture, despite that it is informal enough not to be used in formal-register lay vocabulary.

Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:pubic hair
Further reading
  • pubes in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • pubes in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

Galician

Noun

pubes

  1. plural of pube (pubic bones)

Noun

pubes

  1. plural of pube (crab lice)

Latin

Etymology 1

Possible connection with puer, pūpa, pūsus, putus.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpuː.bes/, [ˈpuː.bɛs]

Adjective

pūbes (genitive pūberis); third declension

  1. adult
  2. pubescent
  3. ripe
  4. downy (of plants)

Inflection

Third declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
nominative pūbes pūberēs pūberia
genitive pūberis pūberium
dative pūberī pūberibus
accusative pūberem pūbes pūberēs pūberia
ablative pūberī pūberibus
vocative pūbes pūberēs pūberia

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

From pūbes (“adult”).

Noun

pūbes f (genitive pūbis); third declension

  1. youth
  2. youthfulness
  3. pubic hair

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative pūbes pūbēs
genitive pūbis pūbum
dative pūbī pūbibus
accusative pūbem pūbēs
ablative pūbe pūbibus
vocative pūbes pūbēs

Descendants

References

  • 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
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