BOY Copy link • BOYpuer. A little boy, puerulus, pusio (generally): pupus, pupulus (in endearment). To become a boy again, repuerascere. To leave boy’s play, nuces relinquere. He is past a boy, virilem togam sumsit, ex pueris or ex ephebis excessit. When I was a boy, me puero. Vid: CHILD.