puellile

== English == === Etymology === From Latin puella (“female child, girl”) + English -ile (suffix meaning ‘capable of; tending to’ forming adjectives), modelled after puerile. 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”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p(j)uːˈɛlaɪl/, /ˈpjuːlaɪl/ (General American) IPA(key): /p(j)uˈɛlˌaɪl/, /ˈpjulaɪl/ Hyphenation: pu‧el‧lile === Adjective === puellile (comparative more puellile, superlative most puellile) (formal, chiefly derogatory) Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a girl or girls. Synonyms: girlish, girllike, girly, puelline Antonyms: ungirlish, ungirly ==== Hypernyms ==== see Thesaurus:childish, Thesaurus:childlike ==== Coordinate terms ==== boyish boylike puerile ==== Related terms ==== puella puella aeterna puella publica puelline ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === girl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia girl (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia