"puer" meaning in Latin

See puer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈpu.ɛr] [Classical-Latin], [ˈpuː.er] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der. Proto-Indo-European *ph₂weros Proto-Italic *puweros Latin puer From Proto-Italic *puweros, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂weros, from *peh₂w-. Cognate with Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌 (puglum), Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, “boy”). Etymology templates: {{ety|la|:inh|itc-pro:*puweros<ety:inh<ine-pro:*ph₂weros<ety:der<ine-pro:*peh₂w->>>>|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der. Proto-Indo-European *ph₂weros Proto-Italic *puweros Latin puer [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*peh₂w-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*ph₂weros", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*puweros", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "puer", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }" data-lang="la" data-title="puer">, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*puweros}} Proto-Italic *puweros, {{der|la|ine-pro||*ph₂weros}} Proto-Indo-European *ph₂weros, {{cog|osc|𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌|sc=Ital}} Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌 (puglum), {{cog|grc|παῖς||boy}} Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, “boy”) Head templates: {{la-noun|puer<2>|f=puera}} puer m (genitive puerī, feminine puera); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|puer<2>}} Forms: puerī [genitive], puera [feminine], no-table-tags [table-tags], puer [nominative, singular], puerī [nominative, plural], puerī [genitive, singular], puerōrum [genitive, plural], puerō [dative, singular], puerīs [dative, plural], puerum [accusative, singular], puerōs [accusative, plural], puerō [ablative, singular], puerīs [ablative, plural], puer [singular, vocative], puerī [plural, vocative], puerus [alternative, rare]
  1. a child; chit Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-puer-la-noun-2WMy269D Categories (other): Latin entries with etymology trees, Children Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology trees: 30 27 22 14 8 Disambiguation of Children: 71 10 6 7 6
  2. a boy, lad (typically between ages 7-14 but could be younger) (older than an īnfāns but younger than an adulēscēns) Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-puer-la-noun-p2Ts6rxi Categories (other): Latin entries with etymology trees, Latin entries with etymon, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Age Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology trees: 30 27 22 14 8 Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymon: 17 38 14 17 14 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 23 34 17 21 5 Disambiguation of Age: 23 77 0 0 0
  3. a male servant or page; slave Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-puer-la-noun-tm1PJVNs Categories (other): Latin entries with etymology trees, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Male people Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology trees: 30 27 22 14 8 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 17 13 36 16 19 Disambiguation of Male people: 5 8 82 1 4
  4. a bachelor Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-puer-la-noun-QjMCzTsP Categories (other): Latin entries with etymology trees Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology trees: 30 27 22 14 8
  5. boyhood (ex: in puero, "in his boyhood" or "as a boy") Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-puer-la-noun-f8JTI3zM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: puerperium Coordinate_terms: īnfāns, adulēscēns, catulaster
Derived forms: -por, puer dēlicātus, puera, puerārius, puerāscō, pueraster, puerculus, puerigenus, puerīlis, puerīlitās, puerīliter, puerinus, pueritia, pueritiēs, puerpera, puerperium, puerperus, puerulus, pūsus, putus, repuerāscō

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “gender”",
      "word": "puella"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “gender”",
      "word": "puera"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “age”",
      "word": "vir"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "īnfāns"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "adulēscēns"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "catulaster"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "-por"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puer dēlicātus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puera"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerārius"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerāscō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pueraster"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerculus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerigenus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerīlis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerīlitās"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerīliter"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerinus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pueritia"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pueritiēs"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerpera"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerperium"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerperus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerulus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "pūsus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "putus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "repuerāscō"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puer"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puer aeternus"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puerile"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
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      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
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        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puerperium"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puerility"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
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        "borrowed"
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      "lang_code": "io",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puero"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "prunc"
    }
  ],
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      "*peh₂w-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/peh₂w-"
    ],
    [
      "*ph₂weros",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ph₂weros"
    ],
    [
      "*puweros",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/puweros"
    ],
    [
      "*puweros",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/puweros"
    ],
    [
      "*peh₂w-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/peh₂w-"
    ],
    [
      "𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌",
      "𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌#Oscan"
    ],
    [
      "παῖς",
      "παῖς#Ancient_Greek"
    ]
  ],
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        "tree": "1"
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      "name": "ety"
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        "3": "*puweros"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*ph₂weros"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osc",
        "2": "𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌",
        "sc": "Ital"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "παῖς",
        "3": "",
        "4": "boy"
      },
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    }
  ],
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puerī",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerī",
          "pueri"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puera",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puer",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerī",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerī",
          "pueri#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerī",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerī",
          "pueri#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerōrum",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerōrum",
          "puerorum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerō",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerō",
          "puero#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerīs",
          "pueris#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerōs",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerōs",
          "pueros#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerō",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerō",
          "puero#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerīs",
          "pueris#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puer",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerī",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerī",
          "pueri#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerus",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "puer<2>",
        "f": "puera"
      },
      "expansion": "puer m (genitive puerī, feminine puera); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "puer<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "puerperium"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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          "_dis": "30 27 22 14 8",
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          "name": "Latin entries with etymology trees",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 10 6 7 6",
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          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Children",
          "orig": "la:Children",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a child; chit"
      ],
      "id": "en-puer-la-noun-2WMy269D",
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        [
          "child",
          "child"
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          "chit",
          "chit"
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    },
    {
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        {
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        {
          "_dis": "23 34 17 21 5",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77 0 0 0",
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          "orig": "la:Age",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "a boy, lad (typically between ages 7-14 but could be younger) (older than an īnfāns but younger than an adulēscēns)"
      ],
      "id": "en-puer-la-noun-p2Ts6rxi",
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        [
          "boy",
          "boy"
        ],
        [
          "lad",
          "lad"
        ],
        [
          "īnfāns",
          "infans#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "adulēscēns",
          "adulescens#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
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    },
    {
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        {
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        {
          "_dis": "17 13 36 16 19",
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        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
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          "slave",
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      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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    },
    {
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        "a bachelor"
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          "bachelor",
          "bachelor"
        ]
      ],
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        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "boyhood (ex: in puero, \"in his boyhood\" or \"as a boy\")"
      ],
      "id": "en-puer-la-noun-f8JTI3zM",
      "links": [
        [
          "boyhood",
          "boyhood"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpu.ɛr]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpuː.er]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "puer"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “gender”",
      "word": "puella"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “gender”",
      "word": "puera"
    },
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “age”",
      "word": "vir"
    }
  ],
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    "Latin entries with etymology trees",
    "Latin entries with etymon",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin noun forms",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂w-",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages using etymon with no ID",
    "Pages with 6 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Pages with etymology trees",
    "Pages with etymon",
    "Pages with inline etymon for redlinks",
    "la:Age",
    "la:Children",
    "la:Male people",
    "pl:Education",
    "pl:Healthcare occupations",
    "pl:Male people",
    "pl:Pharmacy"
  ],
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "īnfāns"
    },
    {
      "word": "adulēscēns"
    },
    {
      "word": "catulaster"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "-por"
    },
    {
      "word": "puer dēlicātus"
    },
    {
      "word": "puera"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerārius"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerāscō"
    },
    {
      "word": "pueraster"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerculus"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerigenus"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerīlis"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerīlitās"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerīliter"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerinus"
    },
    {
      "word": "pueritia"
    },
    {
      "word": "pueritiēs"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerpera"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerperium"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerperus"
    },
    {
      "word": "puerulus"
    },
    {
      "word": "pūsus"
    },
    {
      "word": "putus"
    },
    {
      "word": "repuerāscō"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puer"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puer aeternus"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puerile"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puerilism"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puerperium"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puerility"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puerperal"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puerperous"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Ido",
      "lang_code": "io",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "puero"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "word": "prunc"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "*peh₂w-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/peh₂w-"
    ],
    [
      "*ph₂weros",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ph₂weros"
    ],
    [
      "*puweros",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/puweros"
    ],
    [
      "*puweros",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/puweros"
    ],
    [
      "*peh₂w-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/peh₂w-"
    ],
    [
      "𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌",
      "𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌#Oscan"
    ],
    [
      "παῖς",
      "παῖς#Ancient_Greek"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": ":inh",
        "3": "itc-pro:*puweros<ety:inh<ine-pro:*ph₂weros<ety:der<ine-pro:*peh₂w->>>>",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der.\nProto-Indo-European *ph₂weros\nProto-Italic *puweros\nLatin puer\n[Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*peh₂w-\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"derived\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*ph₂weros\", \"status\" : \"inline\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*puweros\", \"status\" : \"inline\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"puer\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"la\" }\" data-lang=\"la\" data-title=\"puer\">",
      "name": "ety"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*puweros"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *puweros",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*ph₂weros"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *ph₂weros",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osc",
        "2": "𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌",
        "sc": "Ital"
      },
      "expansion": "Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌 (puglum)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "παῖς",
        "3": "",
        "4": "boy"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, “boy”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der.\nProto-Indo-European *ph₂weros\nProto-Italic *puweros\nLatin puer\nFrom Proto-Italic *puweros, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂weros, from *peh₂w-. Cognate with Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌 (puglum), Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, “boy”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puerī",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerī",
          "pueri"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puera",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puer",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerī",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerī",
          "pueri#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerī",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerī",
          "pueri#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerōrum",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerōrum",
          "puerorum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerō",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerō",
          "puero#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerīs",
          "pueris#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerōs",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerōs",
          "pueros#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerō",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerō",
          "puero#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerīs",
          "pueris#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puer",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerī",
      "links": [
        [
          "puerī",
          "pueri#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puerus",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "puer<2>",
        "f": "puera"
      },
      "expansion": "puer m (genitive puerī, feminine puera); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "puer<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "puerperium"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a child; chit"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ],
        [
          "chit",
          "chit"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a boy, lad (typically between ages 7-14 but could be younger) (older than an īnfāns but younger than an adulēscēns)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "boy",
          "boy"
        ],
        [
          "lad",
          "lad"
        ],
        [
          "īnfāns",
          "infans#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "adulēscēns",
          "adulescens#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a male servant or page; slave"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "servant",
          "servant"
        ],
        [
          "page",
          "page"
        ],
        [
          "slave",
          "slave"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a bachelor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bachelor",
          "bachelor"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "boyhood (ex: in puero, \"in his boyhood\" or \"as a boy\")"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "boyhood",
          "boyhood"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpu.ɛr]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpuː.er]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "puer"
}

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