Noun: puella
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Nominative
| Singular | puella |
| Plural | puellae |
Genitive
| Singular | puellae |
| Plural | puellārum |
Dative
| Singular | puellae |
| Plural | puellīs |
Accusative
| Singular | puellam |
| Plural | puellās |
Ablative
| Singular | puellā |
| Plural | puellīs |
Vocative
| Singular | puella |
| Plural | puellae |
Sample Sentences
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parvola puella (a young girl)
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puellae et puerī (girls and boys)
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pueri innuptaeque puellae (boys and unmarried maidens)
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puellae et puerī integrī (chaste girls and boys) [c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 34.2]
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cara mea puella (my beloved girl)
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mea puella (my girlfriend)
Nouns inflected like puella
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From puellus (“a little boy”), contracted from puerulus (“little boy, little slave”), the diminutive of puer (“boy”).
Verbs referencing "puella"
English Nouns
puella aeterna, Catalan Nouns
poncella.
Translations