pueritia

Latin

Alternative forms

• puertia

Etymology

From puer (“male child, boy”) +‎ -itia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pu.eˈri.ti.a/, [puɛˈrɪt̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pu.eˈrit.t͡si.a/, [pueˈrit̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

pueritia f (genitive pueritiae); first declension

1. boyhood, childhood, youth
2. (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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016