CHILDHOOD Copy link • CHILDHOODprima aetas: prima aetatis tempora (general term): infantia: infantiae anni (the time when the child can not (or not quite) speak): pueritia :aetas puerilis (boyhood): from childhood, a prima (or ab ineunte) aetate; a prima infantia (Tac., Ann., 1, 4, 3); ab initio aetatis; a primis aetatis temporibus; a parvo or parvulo; a puero (and, in plur., a parvis or parvulis, a pueris, of several, as well as if one speaks of himself in the plur.): a teneris, ut Graeci dicunt, unguiculis (translation of the Greek ἐξ ἁπαλῶν ὀνύχων, only in the epistolary style of Cic., ad Div., 1, 6, extr). IMPROPR, in the sense of imperfect state, e.g., of arts, etc., prima initia, plur.