preadolescence

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The period between childhood and adolescence, between the ages of about nine and eleven for girls, and ten and twelve for boys. uncountable
    — Jojo gains what Pop’s lost of his bearing. First, a brace across his thighs, all the bowlegged softness of his preadolescence dissolved to a granite stance.

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English adolescence
English preadolescence
From pre- + adolescence.
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