adolescence

Origin:

The origin of the word adolescence is mainly early 13th century and late 15th century.With mainly Latin, and old French language origins

family and roots:

The main roots of this word is "ad" which mean "to", and "alescre" which means "grow up". Some familiar words are addition, or additional.

antonyms:

Some antonyms are aged, aging, elderly, etc.

synonyms:

Some synonyms are minority, nonage, youthful, juvenile, etc.

meaning:

Some of the meaning of the word are: 1. The period of life when a child becomes and adult, 2. The stage or process of growing up, 3. A stage of development (as of a language or culture) prior to maturity.

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