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puella girl
puella is a Latin Noun that primarily means girl.
Definitions for puella
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
girl
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A female child, girl. (b) (w. gen. or poss. adj.) a daughter.
- 2
A young woman (married or otherwise), girl, maiden. (b) (applied to nymphs, goddesses).
- 3
A young woman as an object of sexual interest. (b) (spec.) one's girl, sweetheart.
Sentences with puella
Latin to English
Puella cui librum dat est fortūnāta.Compare The girl to whom he is giving the book is fortunate.
Dīligō puellam quae ex Italiā vēnit.Compare I admire the girl who came from italy.
Puella fortūnam patriae tuae laudat.Compare The girl is praising the fortune of your (sg.) country.
Ō puella. patriam tuam servā.Compare O girl, save your country.
Vīta multīs puellīs fortūnam dat.Compare Life gives (good) fortune to many girls.
Multae puellae pecūniam amant.Compare Many girls love money.
Desine iam, Lalage, tristes ornare capillos, tangat et insanum nulla puella caput. (Martial, Epigrams II,66.3)Compare Stop, now, Lalage, to arrange your dire locks and let no maid touch your ill-tempered head.
Utque viro furtiva Venus, sic grata puellae. Vir male dissimulat; tectius illa cupit.Compare And as stolen love is pleasant to a man, so it is also to a woman; the man dissembles badly; she conceals desire better.
Declension table for puella
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | puella | puellae |
| Gen. | puellae | puellārum |
| Dat. | puellae | puellīs |
| Acc. | puellam | puellās |
| Abl. | puellā | puellīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 14.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1514.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 122.
Bibliography
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Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
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Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "puella, puellae (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/puella-puellae.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 14.puella, puellae on page 14
