pueritia
Latin
Alternative forms
- puertia
Etymology
From puer (“male child, boy”) + -itia.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pu.eˈri.ti.a/, [puɛˈrɪt̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pu.eˈrit.t͡si.a/, [pueˈrit̪ː͡s̪iä]
Noun
pueritia f (genitive pueritiae); first declension
- boyhood, childhood, youth
- (figuratively) innocence; childishness, callowness
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pueritia | pueritiae |
| Genitive | pueritiae | pueritiārum |
| Dative | pueritiae | pueritiīs |
| Accusative | pueritiam | pueritiās |
| Ablative | pueritiā | pueritiīs |
| Vocative | pueritia | pueritiae |
Synonyms
- puerīlitās
- pueritiēs
Related terms
Related terms
- puer
- puera
- puerāscō
- pueraster
- puerculus
- puerigenus
- puerīlis
- puerīlitās
- puerīliter
- puerinus
- pueritiēs
- puerpera
- puerperium
- puerperus
- peurulus
Descendants
- Italian: puerizia
- Portuguese: puerícia
- Spanish: puericia
References
- “pueritia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pueritia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pueritia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- pueritia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- pueritia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016