studentes

Studentes is a Latin term that translates roughly as "the students" or "the ones who study." It is the plural form of the present active participle studēns, which comes from the verb studēre (to study, to be eager) and is related to studium (zeal or study). As a participle used adjectivally, studēns describes persons who are studying or who show initiative and diligence; in Latin, participles decline like adjectives, so the form studentes can function as both nominative plural and accusative plural, depending on its syntactic role.

In classical Latin, studentes commonly appears to denote groups of learners, scholars, or youths in educational settings. It can modify a noun or stand as a substantive in its own right, often conveying a sense of active engagement in study. For example, in a sentence like Studentes in scholā labōrant, the phrase can be rendered in English as "The students in the school are working hard," with studentes serving as the subject in the nominative plural.

Usage notes: studentes is not a fixed noun with a separate lexical meaning beyond the participle’s sense of studying or being eager. Its precise translation depends on grammatical case and context. The form is typically encountered in Latin texts, including classical literature and later scholastic or ecclesiastical writings that preserve Latin syntax. The English counterpart is straightforwardly "the students," but care should be taken to recognize the underlying participial nuance when translating phrases containing studēns or studentes.