Lemma 1puer

nounmasculine

boy, lad, young man; servant; (male) child; [a puere => from boyhood]

Morphology2 analyses

nominative singularpuer · regular

vocative singularpuer · regular

Lewis & Short

key · puerFull entry

pŭer, ĕri, m., voc., plur.

I.gen. plur. puerūm, (v. infra) [root pu-, to beget; pudes; and cf. pupa, putus], orig. a child, whether boy or girl. — Thus, as fem.: sancta puer Saturni filia, regina, Liv. And. ap. P.: P.: mea puer, mea puer, Poët. ap. P. — Hence, freq. in the pueri, children, in gen.

II.In partic.

1.A male child, a boy, lad, young man (strictly till the seventeenth year, but freq. applied to those who are much older) — A puero, and with plur. verb, a pueris (cf. Gr. ), from a boy, boyhood, or childhood (cf. ab). — In like manner: ut primum ex pueris excessit Archias, as soon as he ceased to be a child.

2.A grown-up youth, young man; (coupled with juvenis, and 18).

3.An unmarried man, a bachelor.

4.As a pet name, or in familiar address, boy, fellow.

B.Transf.

1.A little son, a son (poet.)

2.A boy for attendance, a servant, slave.

3.As adj., youthful.