pueritia Latin · revision 31184

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=itc-pro *puwero-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pu.ɛˈrɪ.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pu.eˈrit.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pueritia''' ''f'' (genitive pueritiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Horace has the contracted form ''puertia''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|puer|t=boy]] with the suffix [[m|la|-itia]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives ⟨puer⟩ from [[itc-pro|*puwero-]], perhaps [[ine-pro|*ph₂u-ero-|t=smaller]], or a newer formation on a root ⟨*pau-⟩ “small, young”.^(de Vaan 2008) Isidore connected it with ⟨pūra⟩, “pure”.^(TLL)^(Isidore)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Terence as its first author.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is boyhood or childhood, the state of being a boy, which Lewis and Short say usually lasted to the seventeenth year, though the word is often used of later youth; figuratively it is childish nature or callowness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it “childhood, boyhood, girlhood”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace has ''puertia''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|boyhood|alt=Boyhood]], [[m|en|childhood]], youth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Childishness, callowness; innocence.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[puer]]

+ * [[puerīlis]]

+ * [[puerīlitās]]

+ * [[adulēscentia]]

+ * [[īnfantia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}