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* pŭĕrĭgĕnus, a, um, adj. [puer-gigno], that begets boys: semina, Fulg. Myth. praef. (al. puerigera).

pŭĕrīlis, e, adj. [puer].

  1. I. Lit., boyish, childish, youthful (class.): puerili specie, senili prudentiā, Cic. Div. 2, 23, 50: aetas, id. Arch. 3, 4; cf. tempus, Ov. M. 6, 719: disciplina, Cic. N. D. 1, 26, 72; id. Rep. 4, 3, 3: institutio, id. de Or. 2, 1, 1: doctrina, id. ib. 3, 31, 125; Quint. 1, 1, 9: delectatio, Cic. Fin. 1, 21, 72: regnum, Liv. 1, 3: blanditiae, Ov. M. 6, 626: manus, Cels. 3, 27, 3: ostrum, the prœtexta, Stat. S. 5, 2, 66: agmen, a troop of boys, Verg. A. 5, 548.
    In distinction from virgineus: (faciem) virgineam in puero, puerilem in virgine possis (dicere), boyish, Ov. M. 8, 323.
    1. B. In partic., in mal. part.: officium, Plaut. Cist. 4, 1, 5: supplicium, Mart. 2, 60, 2; and absol. puerile, id. 9, 67, 3; cf.: puerile obtulit corollarium, App. M. 3, p. 138, 13; Hyg. Fab. 189.
  2. II. Transf., boyish, childish, puerile, trivial, silly (rare but class.): acta illa res est animo virili, consilio puerili, Cic. Att. 14, 21, 3: sententia, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 56: vota, Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 11: res (with insubidae, inertes), Gell. 18, 8, 1: isagogae, id. 1, 2, 6: puerile est, Ter. And. 2, 6, 18.
    Comp.: si puerilius his ratio esse evincet amare, Hor. S. 2, 3, 250.
    Hence, adv.: pŭĕrīlĭtĕr, like a child: ludentes, Phaedr. 3, 8, 5: blandiri, Liv. 21, 1.
    1. B. Childishly, foolishly, sillily: stultus, Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 42; Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 19: facere, id. Ac. 2, 11, 33; 2, 17, 54; Tac. H. 4, 86.

pŭĕrīlĭtas, ātis, f. [puerilis].

  1. I. Boyhood, childhood (ante- and post-class.), Varr. ap. Non. 494, 19; Val. Max. 5, 4, 2.
  2. * II. Childish conduct, childishness, puerility, Sen. Ep. 4, 2.

pŭĕrīlĭter, adv., v. puerilis fin.

pŭĕrinus, a, um, adj. [puer], youthful, an epithet of Hercules, Inscr. Orell. 1546.

pŭĕrĭtĭa, ae (pŭĕrtĭa, Hor. C. 1, 36, 8), f. [puer].

  1. I. Lit., boyhood, childhood, youth (applied usually till the seventeenth year, but freq. later; v. puer, II.): qui enim citius adulescentiae senectus quam pueritiae adulescentia obrepit? Cic. Sen. 2, 4; Tac. H. 1, 13: a pueritiā, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 9: vitae cursum a pueritiā tenere, Cic. Rep. 1, 6, 10; id. Tusc. 2, 11, 27: e ludo atque pueritiae disciplinis ad patris exercitum profectus, id. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28: a pueritiā, id. Rep. 1, 4, 7; 1, 22, 36; 6, 24; id. Fam. 1, 7, 9; id. Brut. 44, 164; cf.: genus militum suetum a pueritiā latrociniis, Sall. H. 2, 67 Dietsch: omnem pueritiam Arpini altus, Sall. J. 63, 3: procera pueritia, Tac. H. 4, 14: pueritiae disciplina, Manil. 10, 28.
    Of animals, youth, Col. 7, 6, 3.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. Innocence: quae pueritia est infrequens polluta, Varr. ap. Non. 156, 8 (al. puritia).
    2. B. The first beginnings, commencement, Cato Italicarum originum pueritias illustravit, Front. Princ. Hist. p. 314 Mai.

* pŭĕrĭtĭes, ēi, f. [puer], childhood (for the usual pueritia); scanned as a quadrisyl., Aus. Prof. 10, 15.