"puerile" meaning in All languages combined

See puerile on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈpjʊə.ɹaɪl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpjʊɹɪl/ [General-American], /ˈpjʊɹaɪl/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-puerile.ogg , en-au-puerile.ogg Forms: more puerile [comparative], most puerile [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin puerīlis (“childish”), from puer (“child, boy”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*peh₂w-}}, {{der|en|la|puerīlis|t=childish}} Latin puerīlis (“childish”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} puerile (comparative more puerile, superlative most puerile)
  1. Childish; trifling; silly. Synonyms: juvenile, silly, trifling, childish, insignificant
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  2. Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile. Translations (characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys): момчешки (momčeški) (Bulgarian), puerala (Ido), barnslig (Norwegian Bokmål), barnsleg (Norwegian Nynorsk), мальчи́шеский (malʹčíšeskij) (Russian), pueril (Spanish), хлоп'ячий (xlopʺjačyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-puerile-en-adj-8tJbbjHe Disambiguation of 'characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: puerilely, puerilism, puerility, puerilization Related terms: boyish, yobbish, youthful

Adjective [German]

Audio: De-puerile.ogg
Head templates: {{head|de|adjective form}} puerile
  1. inflection of pueril:
    strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    Tags: accusative, feminine, form-of, mixed, nominative, singular, strong Form of: pueril
    Sense id: en-puerile-de-adj-ZbwNww8B
  2. inflection of pueril:
    strong nominative/accusative plural
    Tags: accusative, form-of, nominative, plural, strong Form of: pueril
    Sense id: en-puerile-de-adj-Zh3WB4C-
  3. inflection of pueril:
    weak nominative all-gender singular
    Tags: form-of, nominative, singular, weak Form of: pueril
    Sense id: en-puerile-de-adj-XFqPRmgl Categories (other): Pages with entries, German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 3 5 3 41 5 2 4 Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 13 14 55 18
  4. inflection of pueril:
    weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
    Tags: accusative, feminine, form-of, neuter, singular, weak Form of: pueril
    Sense id: en-puerile-de-adj-JqSm5Nzo

Adjective [Italian]

IPA: /pu.eˈri.le/ Forms: puerili [plural]
Rhymes: -ile Etymology: From Latin puerīlis. Etymology templates: {{der|it|la|puerīlis}} Latin puerīlis Head templates: {{it-adj}} puerile (plural puerili)
  1. puerile, childish, juvenile, boyish
    Sense id: en-puerile-it-adj-YEl283W1 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 69 31
  2. (rare, relational) children's, baby Tags: rare, relational
    Sense id: en-puerile-it-adj-iVYp8Tav
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: infantile Related terms: puerilicultura, puerilismo, puerilità, puerilmente, puerizia

Adjective [Latin]

IPA: /pu.eˈriː.le/ [Classical-Latin], [puɛˈriːɫ̪ɛ] [Classical-Latin], /pu.eˈri.le/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [pueˈriːle] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) Forms: puerīle [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|adjective form|head=puerīle}} puerīle
  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of puerīlis Tags: accusative, form-of, neuter, nominative, singular, vocative Form of: puerīlis
    Sense id: en-puerile-la-adj-v2Ld30ad Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries

Adjective [Swedish]

Head templates: {{head|sv|adjective form}} puerile
  1. definite natural masculine singular of pueril Tags: definite, form-of, masculine, natural, singular Form of: pueril
    Sense id: en-puerile-sv-adj-vVQzI6jj Categories (other): Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Swedish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "1850, Thomas De Quincey, French and English Manners (originally published in Hogg's Instructor\nThe French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents."
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          "text": "From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,—he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.",
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          "ref": "1853 March 22, Karl Marx, “Forced Emigration”, in New-York Tribune:",
          "text": "But can there be anything more puerile, more short-sighted, than the views of those Economists who believe in all earnest that this woeful transitory state means nothing but adapting society to the acquisitive propensities of capitalists, both landlords and money-lords?",
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          "ref": "2014 April 12, Simon Russell Beale, “Why Shakespeare always says something new: As the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth approaches, the great Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale explains his secrets [print version: The king and I]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R7:",
          "text": "[…] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.",
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          "ref": "1930 July, West Kirby, Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, Preface (page 9 of the Dover 1968 reprint of L&FM and Star Maker)",
          "text": "Today we should welcome, and even study, every serious attempt to envisage the future of our race, not merely to grasp the very diverse and often tragic possibilities that confront us, but also that we may familiarize ourselves with the certainty that many of our cherished ideals would seem puerile to more developed minds."
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          "ref": "1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, page 79:",
          "text": "From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,—he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.",
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          "ref": "1853 March 22, Karl Marx, “Forced Emigration”, in New-York Tribune:",
          "text": "But can there be anything more puerile, more short-sighted, than the views of those Economists who believe in all earnest that this woeful transitory state means nothing but adapting society to the acquisitive propensities of capitalists, both landlords and money-lords?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 12, Simon Russell Beale, “Why Shakespeare always says something new: As the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth approaches, the great Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale explains his secrets [print version: The king and I]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R7:",
          "text": "[…] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.",
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          "ref": "1930 July, West Kirby, Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, Preface (page 9 of the Dover 1968 reprint of L&FM and Star Maker)",
          "text": "Today we should welcome, and even study, every serious attempt to envisage the future of our race, not merely to grasp the very diverse and often tragic possibilities that confront us, but also that we may familiarize ourselves with the certainty that many of our cherished ideals would seem puerile to more developed minds."
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "momčeški",
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      "word": "момчешки"
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      "word": "puerala"
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    },
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      "word": "мальчи́шеский"
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      "word": "pueril"
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    }
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}

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      "word": "puerilicultura"
    },
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      "word": "puerilismo"
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    {
      "word": "puerilità"
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      "word": "puerilmente"
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      "word": "puerizia"
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    {
      "word": "infantile"
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}

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}

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}

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