pueraster

== Latin == === Etymology === From puer (“boy”) + -aster. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pu.ɛˈras.tɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pu.eˈras.ter] === Noun === pueraster m (genitive puerastrī); second declension (hapax legomenon, Medieval Latin) A preadolescent or adolescent boy, a preteen or teen ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er). ==== Synonyms ==== iuvenis, puer === References === “pueraster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pueraster”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. "pueraster", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)