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Puellile

//p(j)uːˈɛlaɪl// adj

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Adjective

1
Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a girl or girls. derogatory, formal
"One weak and puerile (or puellile; or anile) articles^([sic]) does a journal more harm than two good articles can neutralize."

Etymology

From Latin puella (“female child, girl”) + English -ile (suffix meaning ‘capable of; tending to’ forming adjectives), modelled after puerile. 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”).

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