puelline
3 synonyms for puelline, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Another word for puellile, meaning characteristic of, or relating to, a girl or girls.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
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Etymology
Formed from Latin puella (“female child, girl”) and English -ine (a suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ that forms adjectives). Puella itself derives from puellus (“male child, young boy”) plus -a (the feminine form of -us); puellus is a contraction of puerulus (“little boy; little slave”), from puer (“boy, lad; male...
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