puerile

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or characteristic of a child

   Puerile breathing.

Simplified etymology

Puerile comes from French puéril or Latin puerilis, derived from puer “boy.” Its early meaning was “like a boy,” while the modern disparaging sense “childish” developed in the late 17th century.

From Latin puerīlis (“childish”), from puer (“child, boy”). By surface analysis, puer + -ile.

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