puellus

== Latin == === Etymology === Contracted from puerulus (“a little boy, a little slave”), the diminutive of puer (“boy”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [puˈɛl.lʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [puˈɛl.lus] === Noun === puellus m (genitive puellī, feminine puella); second declension a young boy, a little boy (in erotic context) catamite ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== puer puerulus pūsus putus ==== Descendants ==== Central Italian: buellu (Terni) === References === “puellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “puellus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.