puellaris Latin · revision 36642

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=la puer}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pu.ɛlˈlaː.rɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pu.elˈlaː.ris]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''puellāris''' (neuter puellāre); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|puella|-āris|t1=girl]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|puella]] as from ⟨*puere-la⟩, “little girl”, a diminutive of [[m|la|puer|t=boy]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*puwero-]]; the further connection with [[ine-pro|*ph₂u-ero-|t=smaller]] is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Ovid,^(Köbler 2010) who has it six times;^(TLL) in the ''Fasti'' the picking of flowers draws on the girlish minds of Proserpina and her companions.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means of, befitting or typical of a girl or young woman,^(OLD 2012) whether of the body, as Ariadne's girlish feet in the sand or Europa's feet in the ''Fasti'',^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) or of the mind and age: Tacitus and Quintilian speak of girlish years, Quintilian of his young wife.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Pliny the Elder describes a ''puellāre augurium'' that young wives used to foretell the sex of their child,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and Pliny the Younger speaks of girlish sweetness.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Jerome uses it about eleven times.^(TLL) Prudentius applies it to the Virgin's blood in the conception of Christ.^(TLL)

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+ In medieval Latin it describes nuns, and the neuter ''puellāre'' is a nunnery.^(Niermeyer 1976) British writers use it of girls' eyes and appearance and of the Virgin Mary.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of the minds of Proserpina and her companions.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder describes a girls' augury.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian speaks of his young wife's girlish age.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 383–419/420 AD – Jerome uses it often.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 813 – A council uses it of nuns.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of, befitting or typical of a [[m|en|girl]]; [[m|en|girlish]], [[m|en|maidenly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Youthful, of young women.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Of [[m|en|nun|alt=nuns]];^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010) ''puellāre'' (neuter as noun), a [[m|en|nunnery]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[puellāriter]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}