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puellae

puellae is a Latin form of puella, meaning “girl; young woman; sweetheart”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun or dative singular feminine noun or nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 314 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.4.3: illud praeterea ad te scribam, tu sagacius a odorabere. . non queo tantum quantum vereor scribere; tu autem fac ut mihi tuae litterae volent obviae. haec festinans scripsi in itinere atque agmine. Piliae et puellae Caeciliae bellissimae salutem dices.

Propertius, Elegiae 3.3.33: diversaeque novem sortitae iura Puellae

Plautus, Rudens 1.5.264: puéllae. sed únde

All forms of puella (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.