"puella" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: /puˈel.la/ [Classical], [puˈɛlːʲä] [Classical], /puˈel.la/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [puˈɛlːä] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From puellus (“a little boy”), contracted from puerulus (“little boy, little slave”), the diminutive of puer (“boy”). Etymology templates: {{m|la|puellus||a little boy}} puellus (“a little boy”), {{m|la|puerulus||little boy, little slave}} puerulus (“little boy, little slave”), {{m|la|puer||boy}} puer (“boy”) Head templates: {{la-noun|puella<1>|m=puellus}} puella f (genitive puellae, masculine puellus); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|puella<1>}} Forms: puellae [genitive], puellus [masculine], no-table-tags [table-tags], puella [nominative, singular], puellae [nominative, plural], puellae [genitive, singular], puellārum [genitive, plural], puellae [dative, singular], puellīs [dative, plural], puellam [accusative, singular], puellās [accusative, plural], puellā [ablative, singular], puellīs [ablative, plural], puella [singular, vocative], puellae [plural, vocative]
  1. girl, lass, maiden (female child) Tags: declension-1, feminine Categories (topical): Age, Children, Female people Synonyms (girl): fēmella, puera
    Sense id: en-puella-la-noun-h9dCayY1 Disambiguation of Age: 74 15 11 0 Disambiguation of Children: 61 12 9 18 Disambiguation of Female people: 49 3 7 40 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 32 39 14 14 Disambiguation of 'girl': 100 0 0 0
  2. (poetic) sweetheart, mistress, beloved maiden Tags: declension-1, feminine, poetic
    Sense id: en-puella-la-noun-m~Uo3XxC Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 32 39 14 14
  3. young woman, young wife Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-puella-la-noun-uih3-829 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 32 39 14 14
  4. (rare) female slave Tags: declension-1, feminine, rare Categories (topical): Female people
    Sense id: en-puella-la-noun-4i4T3ezR Disambiguation of Female people: 49 3 7 40 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 32 39 14 14 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 26 15 16 43
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: puellam pario Related terms: puellāris, puellula, puer, puera, puerīliter, puerīlis

Inflected forms

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "girl",
      "word": "puer"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puellam pario"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "polle"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: polle",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: polle"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "puella",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: puella",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "puella aeterna",
            "der": "1",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "⇒ puella aeterna",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "puella publica"
          },
          "expansion": "puella publica",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "puellile"
          },
          "expansion": "puellile",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "puelline"
          },
          "expansion": "puelline",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: puella, ⇒ puella aeterna, puella publica, puellile, puelline"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "putèła"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: putèła",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: putèła"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "puellus",
        "3": "",
        "4": "a little boy"
      },
      "expansion": "puellus (“a little boy”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "puerulus",
        "3": "",
        "4": "little boy, little slave"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "puer",
        "3": "",
        "4": "boy"
      },
      "expansion": "puer (“boy”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puellae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puella",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puella",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "puella<1>",
        "m": "puellus"
      },
      "expansion": "puella f (genitive puellae, masculine puellus); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "puella<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puellāris"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puellula"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puera"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerīliter"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerīlis"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 39 14 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 15 11 0",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Age",
          "orig": "la:Age",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 12 9 18",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Children",
          "orig": "la:Children",
          "parents": [
            "Youth",
            "Age",
            "People",
            "Human",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 3 7 40",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Female people",
          "orig": "la:Female people",
          "parents": [
            "Female",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "english": "a young girl",
          "text": "parvola puella",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "boys and girls",
          "text": "pueri atque puellae",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "boys and unmarried maidens",
          "text": "pueri innuptaeque puellae",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "girl, lass, maiden (female child)"
      ],
      "id": "en-puella-la-noun-h9dCayY1",
      "links": [
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ],
        [
          "lass",
          "lass"
        ],
        [
          "maiden",
          "maiden"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "sense": "girl",
          "word": "fēmella"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0 0",
          "sense": "girl",
          "word": "puera"
        }
      ],
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        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 39 14 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "my beloved girl",
          "text": "cara mea puella",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sweetheart, mistress, beloved maiden"
      ],
      "id": "en-puella-la-noun-m~Uo3XxC",
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "sweetheart",
          "sweetheart"
        ],
        [
          "mistress",
          "mistress"
        ],
        [
          "beloved",
          "beloved"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) sweetheart, mistress, beloved maiden"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 39 14 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "young woman, young wife"
      ],
      "id": "en-puella-la-noun-uih3-829",
      "links": [
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ],
        [
          "wife",
          "wife"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 39 14 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 15 16 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "49 3 7 40",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
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          "orig": "la:Female people",
          "parents": [
            "Female",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "female slave"
      ],
      "id": "en-puella-la-noun-4i4T3ezR",
      "links": [
        [
          "slave",
          "slave"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) female slave"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/puˈel.la/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[puˈɛlːʲä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/puˈel.la/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[puˈɛlːä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "puella"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "girl",
      "word": "puer"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Latin 3-syllable words",
    "Latin endearing terms",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin feminine nouns",
    "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
    "Latin first declension nouns",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin noun forms",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "la:Age",
    "la:Children",
    "la:Female people"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "puellam pario"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "polle"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: polle",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: polle"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "puella",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: puella",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "puella aeterna",
            "der": "1",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "⇒ puella aeterna",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "puella publica"
          },
          "expansion": "puella publica",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "puellile"
          },
          "expansion": "puellile",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "puelline"
          },
          "expansion": "puelline",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: puella, ⇒ puella aeterna, puella publica, puellile, puelline"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "putèła"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: putèła",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: putèła"
    }
  ],
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        "3": "",
        "4": "a little boy"
      },
      "expansion": "puellus (“a little boy”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "puerulus",
        "3": "",
        "4": "little boy, little slave"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "puer",
        "3": "",
        "4": "boy"
      },
      "expansion": "puer (“boy”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From puellus (“a little boy”), contracted from puerulus (“little boy, little slave”), the diminutive of puer (“boy”).",
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    {
      "form": "puellae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellus",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puella",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puella",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puellae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "puella<1>",
        "m": "puellus"
      },
      "expansion": "puella f (genitive puellae, masculine puellus); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "puella<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "puellāris"
    },
    {
      "word": "puellula"
    },
    {
      "word": "puer"
    },
    {
      "word": "puera"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerīliter"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerīlis"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "a young girl",
          "text": "parvola puella",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "boys and girls",
          "text": "pueri atque puellae",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "boys and unmarried maidens",
          "text": "pueri innuptaeque puellae",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "girl, lass, maiden (female child)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ],
        [
          "lass",
          "lass"
        ],
        [
          "maiden",
          "maiden"
        ],
        [
          "female",
          "female#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin poetic terms",
        "Latin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "my beloved girl",
          "text": "cara mea puella",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sweetheart, mistress, beloved maiden"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "sweetheart",
          "sweetheart"
        ],
        [
          "mistress",
          "mistress"
        ],
        [
          "beloved",
          "beloved"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(poetic) sweetheart, mistress, beloved maiden"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "young woman, young wife"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "woman",
          "woman"
        ],
        [
          "wife",
          "wife"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "female slave"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "slave",
          "slave"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) female slave"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/puˈel.la/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[puˈɛlːʲä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/puˈel.la/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[puˈɛlːä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "girl",
      "word": "fēmella"
    },
    {
      "sense": "girl",
      "word": "puera"
    }
  ],
  "word": "puella"
}

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