pueraster

Latin

Etymology

From puer (“boy”) +‎ -aster.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pu.eˈras.ter/, [puɛˈräs̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pu.eˈras.ter/, [pueˈräst̪er]

Noun

pueraster m (genitive puerastrī); second declension

1. (hapax, Medieval Latin) A preadolescent or adolescent boy, a preteen or teen

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

	singular	plural
nominative	pueraster	puerastrī
genitive	puerastrī	puerastrōrum
dative	puerastrō	puerastrīs
accusative	puerastrum	puerastrōs
ablative	puerastrō	puerastrīs
vocative	pueraster	puerastrī

Synonyms

• iuvenis, puer

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)