puera

French

Verb

puera

1. third-person singular future of puer

Anagrams

• épura, parue, préau

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese poeira. Cognate with Kabuverdianu puera.

Noun

puera

1. dust

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin puera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpu.e.ra/

Noun

puera (plural pueras)

1. girl

Synonyms

• pupa

Related terms

• puero

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese poeira.

Noun

puera

1. dust

Latin

Etymology

Feminization of puer "child, boy"

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.e.ra/, [ˈpuɛrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.e.ra/, [ˈpuːerä]

Noun

puera f (genitive puerae, masculine puer); first declension

1. girl
2. maiden

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	puera	puerae
genitive	puerae	puerārum
dative	puerae	puerīs
accusative	pueram	puerās
ablative	puerā	puerīs
vocative	puera	puerae

Derived terms

• puella

References

• “puera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• puera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to leave one's boyhood behind one, become a man: ex pueris excedere