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pueri

pueri is a Latin form of puer, meaning “boy; child”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 381 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.29.1: In castris Helvetiorum tabulae repertae sunt litteris Graecis confectae et ad Caesarem relatae, quibus in tabulis nominatim ratio confecta erat, qui numerus domo exisset eorum qui arma ferre possent, et item separatim, quot pueri, senes mulieresque.

Vergil, Aeneid 2.238: feta armis. Pueri circum innuptaeque puellae

Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 4.2.1078: et púeri annos octíngentos vivónt.

All forms of puer (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.