Luxembourgish

Noun

Puer n ‎(plural Puer)

1. pair (set of two)
2. couple, pair (two people in a relationship)
3. (poker) pair

Synonyms

• (couple): Koppel

English

Noun

puer ‎(uncountable)

1. (chiefly historical) Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins.
   • 1842, The Penny Magazine, May 212/1:

     A solution called the ‘pure’ or the 'pewer' (having never seen the word written.., we must spell it as pronounced) is prepared in a large vessel, and into this the skins are immersed.

   • 1903, Henry Richardson Proctor, The principles of leather manufacture, page 174:

     […] The bacteria of fresh dog-dung were not found to possess a satisfactory puering effect, but those from dung with had been fermented a month (as in practice) have a result nearly equal to actual puer.

   • 2009, Tony Covington, Tanning Chemistry: The Science of Leather, page 166:

     […] it was about 50 years before the use of puer was discontinued, at least in Europe.

Anagrams

• Peru, Prue, pure, re-up

French

Etymology

From Old French puir, from Vulgar Latin *putīre, from Classical Latin putēre, present active infinitive of puteō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pu-. The change from -ir to -er can also be seen in words such as contribuer (Old French contribuir, Latin contribuere).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɥe/
• Rhymes: -ɥe

Verb

puer

1. (intransitive) to stink, to smell (bad)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• puant
• empuantir

Anagrams

• peur, pure, puré, repu, rupe, rupé

Latin

puerī indī (Pakistani boys)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ph₂wero, from *peh₂w-. Cognate to Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌 ‎(puklum), Ancient Greek παῖς ‎(paîs, “child”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.er/

Noun

puer m ‎(genitive puerī); second declension

1. a child
2. a boy
3. a male servant
4. a bachelor
5. boyhood (ex: in puero, "in his boyhood" or "as a boy")

Declension

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

¹May also be puere.

Related terms

• -por

Antonyms

• (gender): puella, puera
• (age): vir

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: puerile, puerilism, puerperium, puerility, puerperal

See also

• puer on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

References

• puer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• puer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “puer”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • from youth up: a puero (is), a parvo (is), a parvulo (is)
    
  • a boy ten years old: puer decem annorum
    
  • to entrust a child to the tuition of..: puerum alicui erudiendum or in disciplinam tradere
    
  • to teach children the rudiments: pueros elementa (prima) docere
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave one's boyhood behind one, become a man: ex pueris excedere
    
• puer in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016