childhood Copy link Outline 1. pŭĕrĭtĭa2. infantia (prop. infancy; but extended so as to comprehend about the first seven years of life3. Expr. by circuml. • childhood: 1. pŭĕrĭtĭa: from c., a pueritia, Cic.: Sall.: Tac. 2. infantia (prop. infancy; but extended so as to comprehend about the first seven years of life: v. child, 2): so much as is snatched from c. is gained for youth, quantum infantiae praesumptum est, adolescentiae acquiritur, Quint. 3. Expr. by circuml.: as, puerilis aetas, puerile tempus, pueriles anni: v. childish. Phr.: from c., a puero, or (in speaking of more than one person), a pueris, Cic.; a teneris unguiculis (a Greek idiom), Cic.; de tenero ungui, Hor.; a tenero, Quint.; in teneris, Virg.; a primo tempore aetatis, Cic.; a parvo, Liv.; a parvulo, Ter.; ab infante, Col.; prima ab infantia, Tac.
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.