puelline

== English == === 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”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p(j)uːˈɛliːn/, /-aɪn/ (General American) IPA(key): /p(j)uˈɛlˌin/, /-aɪn/ Hyphenation: pu‧el‧line === Adjective === puelline (comparative more puelline, superlative most puelline) Synonym of puellile (“characteristic of, or pertaining to, a girl or girls”). Synonyms: girlish, girllike, girly Antonyms: ungirlish, ungirly ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === girl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia girl (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia