puera
French
Verb
puera
- third-person singular future of puer
Anagrams
- épura, parue, préau
Guinea-Bissau Creole
Etymology
From Portuguese poeira. Cognate with Kabuverdianu puera.
Noun
puera
- dust
Interlingua
Etymology
From Latin puera.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpu.e.ra/
Noun
puera (plural pueras)
- girl
Synonyms
- pupa
Related terms
- puero
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese poeira.
Noun
puera
- dust
Latin
Etymology
Feminization of puer "child, boy"
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.e.ra/, [ˈpuɛrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.e.ra/, [ˈpuːerä]
Noun
puera f (genitive puerae, masculine puer); first declension
- girl
- maiden
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | puera | puerae |
Genitive | puerae | puerārum |
Dative | puerae | puerīs |
Accusative | pueram | puerās |
Ablative | puerā | puerīs |
Vocative | puera | puerae |
Derived terms
- puella
References
- “puera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- puera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to leave one's boyhood behind one, become a man: ex pueris excedere
- (ambiguous) to leave one's boyhood behind one, become a man: ex pueris excedere