Juventia gens

The gens Juventia, occasionally written Jubentia, was an ancient plebeian family at Rome.

Cicero reports a claim, which he regards as incorrect, that the first of the plebeian aediles was a Juventius, and in fact the Juventii are not mentioned until BC 197, although there is no reason to doubt that the family had already been at Rome for some generations.

[i][4][1] The nomen Juventius is certainly derived from the Latin juventas, "youth", personified by the goddess Juventas,[5] but the family is probably of Etruscan origin, as the surname Thalna, borne by a number of the earliest Juventii, has the same meaning; Juventius is simply the Latin version of their original name.

There were several families of the Juventii in the time of the Republic, with the surnames Celsus, Laterensis, Pedo, and Thalna.

[1] Thalna, occasionally found as Talna, is an Etruscan name,[6] and was probably the original nomen of the gens, before it came to be known as Juventia.