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puerili

puerili is a Latin form of puerilis, meaning “boyish, childish”. It is the ablative singular masculine adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective or ablative singular neuter adjective or dative singular masculine adjective.

Found 32 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.18.3: In reliquis vitae institutis hoc fere ab reliquis differunt, quod suos liberos, nisi cum adoleverunt, ut munus militiae sustinere possint, palam ad se adire non patiuntur filiumque puerili aetate in publico in conspectu patris adsistere turpe ducunt.

All forms of puerilis (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.