puerilis

Latin

Etymology

From puer (“boy”) +‎ -īlis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

puerīlis (neuter puerīle, comparative puerīlior, superlative puerīlissimus, adverb puerīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. boyish, youthful
  2. (figuratively) immature, childish

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative puerīlis puerīle puerīlēs puerīlia
Genitive puerīlis puerīlium
Dative puerīlī puerīlibus
Accusative puerīlem puerīle puerīlēs
puerīlīs		 puerīlia
Ablative puerīlī puerīlibus
Vocative puerīlis puerīle puerīlēs puerīlia

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Catalan: pueril
  • → English: puerile
  • French: puéril
  • → German: pueril
  • Italian: puerile
  • Portuguese: pueril
  • Spanish: pueril

References
  • “puerilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “puerilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • puerilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the teaching of children: disciplina (institutio) puerilis (not liberorum)
    • the usual subjects taught to boys: doctrinae, quibus aetas puerilis impertiri solet (Nep. Att. 1. 2)
    • the usual subjects taught to boys: artes, quibus aetas puerilis ad humanitatem informari solet
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