pueraster
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pu.eˈras.ter/, [puɛˈräs̠t̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pu.eˈras.ter/, [pueˈräst̪er]
Noun
pueraster m (genitive puerastrī); second declension
- (hapax, Medieval Latin) A preadolescent or adolescent boy, a preteen or teen
Declension
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
References
- “pueraster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pueraster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- pueraster 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)
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