Perhaps fromFrenchpuer.
puer (uncountable)
- (chiefly historical)Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used intanning, after applyinglime, to softenskins.
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, page174:[…] 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 actualpuer.
2009, Tony Covington,Tanning Chemistry: The Science of Leather, page166:[…] it was about 50 years before the use ofpuer was discontinued, at least in Europe.
From theHanyu Pinyin romanization of普洱 (pǔ'ěr), without syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)).
puer
- Alternative form ofpu'er.
Puer can be considered a misspelling ofpu'er. In theory, a syllable-dividing mark (隔音符號／隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào)) should be added before a non-initial syllable beginning witha,o, ore. Hence,puer is not allowed since a word made up ofpu ander would be spelled aspu'er (cf.pu'er). In practice, syllable-dividing marks are often added or omitted at will.
puer (pluralpuers)
- Ellipsis ofpuer aeternus.
1957,IW: The Management Magazine, volume140, page 6:“No; you called it that. Anyway, what’s wrong with ‘whither’?” / “Oh, that; we had to struggle through a high school commencement speech one time, something about ‘Whither now, oh,puers and puellas?’ and now the word gives us the hiccoughs.”
1979,Quadrant, volume12 or 13, page102:As I mentioned earlier, the circumstances that precipitatepuer development prece sexual differentiation and the formation of a strong identity based on gender. Somepuers andpuellas are, therefore, heterosexual, others are homosexual.
1996, Seymour Boorstein, editor,Transpersonal Psychotherapy, 2nd edition,State University of New York Press,→ISBN, pages472, 473:TR spirit-work: For some extreme and giftedpuers and puellas, Jesus or Mary another spirit comes in vivid visions.[…] The blessing, though related to the body, takes place mainly on a heavenly-spiritual place. It is a necessary beginning forpuers and puellas, though much embodied “shadow-material” remains to be dealt with, including the “nasty old (wo)man.”
1996 June 8, Daryl Sharp, “Re: Puer Aeternus info.”, inalt.psychology.jung (Usenet), message-ID <31B98038.779E@inforamp.net>:Mr. Pan, I wrote a book that owes much to von Franz's interpretation of thepuer syndrome: THE SECRET RAVEN: Conflict and Transformation in the Life of Franz Kafka (Inner City Books, 1980). Also, my book THE SURVIVAL PAPERS: Anatomy of a Midlife Crisis (Inner City, 1988) is a narrative about the personal analysis of apuer brought to his knees by his own psychology.
1999 February 21, Sharyn C, “Re: Hillman Online”, inalt.psychology.jung (Usenet), message-ID <3B348FE4.1963DB1D@prodigy.net>:Having a child was a definite turning point in my puella lifestyle, so was getting an education and working towards a serious career. John Lee's book is on my shelf and will have to give it another look in the coming days. I much prefer Hillman's twist on thepuer archetype over some of the Jungians. Even my fav, Von-Franz, is a bit too pessimistic about it. Hillman's archetypal dig brings back the positive aspects of thepuer/puella and for those of us who inhabit this realm,it was a great relief to be able to claim more than the negative side of it.
2000 June 3, Troubledoor, “Re: Question about Puer and Thanatos”, inalt.psychology.jung (Usenet), message-ID <393843A8.737705E6@earthlink.net>:Nobody understands the puer aeternus and also the puella aetermiss because they are the archetypicals of eternity in time.[…] Thepuer and puella are more like masks/roles in this respect because no one ever measures up to these standards. So most people only know the pue's by the shadow or shallow.[…] And thepuers and puellas don't remember anymore the ego's DIGNITY AND HONOR because they are worn out.
2005, Erin Sullivan,Astrology of Midlife and Aging,→ISBN:The combination of Scorpio and Capricorn is not a terribly cheerful image, and considering the mundane events of the time in which this transit occurred, we would be fools to consider that the product of those times might be a lighthearted, happy-go-lucky bunch ofpuers and puellas.[…]Puers and puellas have avery hard time individuating into their aging process.
2005, Daryl Sharp,Not the Big Sleep: On Having Fun, Seriously: A Jungian Romance, Inner City Books,→ISBN, page48:You see,puers and puellas are always about to make a change; one day they’ll do what’s necessary—but not just yet.
2007,Robert A. Johnson, Jerry Ruhl,Living Your Unlived Life: Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose in the Second Half of Life,→ISBN:We are also familiar with the type of man or woman who is overly dominated by the Eternal Youth. Though more common in the first half of life, there arePuers and Puellas of all ages, and their energy is often a delight during courting.[…] ThesePuers and Puellas can never commit, fearing that choices may limit their options.
Inherited fromOld Frenchpuir (with a change in conjugation), fromVulgar Latin*putīre, from ClassicalLatinpūtēre (also with a change in conjugation), present active infinitive ofpūteō, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*puH-.
puer
- (intransitive) tostink, tosmell (bad)
- Synonym:poquer
- (transitive) tostink of
- Cet hommepue l’ail. ―That manstinks of garlic.
- (intransitive, figurative) to beawful; to berepulsive
| infinitive | simple | puer |
|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle |
|---|
| present participle orgerund1 | simple | puant
/pɥɑ̃/ |
|---|
| compound | ayant + past participle |
|---|
| past participle | pué
/pɥe/ |
|---|
| singular | plural |
|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third |
|---|
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles |
|---|
(simple
tenses) | present | pue
/py/ | pues
/py/ | pue
/py/ | puons
/pɥɔ̃/ | puez
/pɥe/ | puent
/py/ |
|---|
| imperfect | puais
/pɥɛ/ | puais
/pɥɛ/ | puait
/pɥɛ/ | puions
/py.jɔ̃/ | puiez
/py.je/ | puaient
/pɥɛ/ |
|---|
| past historic2 | puai
/pɥe/ | puas
/pɥa/ | pua
/pɥa/ | puâmes
/pɥam/ | puâtes
/pɥat/ | puèrent
/pɥɛʁ/ |
|---|
| future | puerai
/py.ʁe/ | pueras
/py.ʁa/ | puera
/py.ʁa/ | puerons
/py.ʁɔ̃/ | puerez
/py.ʁe/ | pueront
/py.ʁɔ̃/ |
|---|
| conditional | puerais
/py.ʁɛ/ | puerais
/py.ʁɛ/ | puerait
/py.ʁɛ/ | puerions
/py.ʁjɔ̃/ | pueriez
/py.ʁje/ | pueraient
/py.ʁɛ/ |
|---|
(compound
tenses) | present perfect | present indicative ofavoir + past participle |
|---|
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle |
|---|
| past anterior2 | past historic ofavoir + past participle |
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| future perfect | future ofavoir + past participle |
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| conditional perfect | conditional ofavoir + past participle |
|---|
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles |
|---|
(simple
tenses) | present | pue
/py/ | pues
/py/ | pue
/py/ | puions
/py.jɔ̃/ | puiez
/py.je/ | puent
/py/ |
|---|
| imperfect2 | puasse
/pɥas/ | puasses
/pɥas/ | puât
/pɥa/ | puassions
/pɥa.sjɔ̃/ | puassiez
/pɥa.sje/ | puassent
/pɥas/ |
|---|
(compound
tenses) | past | present subjunctive ofavoir + past participle |
|---|
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle |
|---|
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – |
|---|
| simple | — | pue
/py/ | — | puons
/pɥɔ̃/ | puez
/pɥe/ | — |
|---|
| compound | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — |
|---|
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen. |
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:- past historic → present perfect
- past anterior → pluperfect
- imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
- pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive
(Christopher Kendris [1995],Master the Basics: French, pp.77,78,79,81). |
FromMiddle High Germanpūr, fromLatinpurus.
- IPA(key): /ˈpʰuːa/
- Rhymes:-uːa
- Syllabification:pu‧er
puer
- pure
- Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “puer”, inDicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti:Riograndenser Hunsrickisch
FromProto-Italic*puweros, fromProto-Indo-European*ph₂weros, from*peh₂w-.[1] Cognate withOscan𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌(puglum),Ancient Greekπαῖς(paîs,“boy”).
puer m (genitivepuerī,femininepuera);second declension
- achild;chit
- aboy,lad(typically between ages 7-14 but could be younger)(older than anīnfāns but younger than anadulēscēns)
- a maleservant orpage;slave
- abachelor
- boyhood (ex:in puero, "in his boyhood" or "as a boy")
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in-er).
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “puer”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page496
- “puer”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “puer”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “puer”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[1], 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 orin 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 inRamminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)),Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
From the nounPuer.
puer
- few,some,a few
2001, Pol Wilmes,Eng Klack fir eis Sprooch[3]:Allpuer Woche fannt dir eist „Chamber-Blietchen“ an ärer Bréifkëscht, vläicht och op der Trap oder am Gank;- Everyfew weeks we find our "Chamber-Blietchen" in our letter box, perhaps even on the stairs or in the hallway;
Learned borrowing fromLatinpuer.
- IPA(key): /ˈpu.ɛr/
- Rhymes:-uɛr
- Syllabification:pu‧er
puer m pers
- (historical)pharmacistapprentice
- Synonym:aptekarczyk
- (historical)student dressed up forcomedy
puer on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipediala