puelline
adj/p(j)uːˈɛliːn/UK/p(j)uˈɛlˌin/US
Etymology
From Latin puella (“female child, girl”) + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Puella is derived from puellus (“male child, young boy”) + -a (feminine form of -us); puellus is a contraction of puerulus (“little boy; little slave”), from puer (“boy, lad; male page, servant, or slave; child”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”)) + -ulus (“suffix forming diminutives of nouns indicating small size or youth”).
Definitions
Synonym of puellile (“characteristic of, or pertaining to, a girl or girls”).
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