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puerile (adj.)
1660s, "youthful, boyish," a back-formation from
puerility
, or else from French
puéril
(15c.), from Latin
puerilis
"boyish; childish," from
puer
"boy, child" (see
puerility
). Disparaging sense, "juvenile, immature," is from 1680s.
