Puella, læ, f. g. Diminutiuum Puera. Ci. A wenth: a girle: a damosel: a woman.Verba puellarum folijs leuiora caducis. O. Wenches words lighter than drie leaues.Bella puella.Ouid.Lacteola. Cat. A faire white girle.Blanda.Ouid. Lasciua. Virg.Candida. Hor. Mollis. Mart. Casta.Ouid. Pauida. Virg.Compta.Ouid. Placida. Ouid.Bene culta.Ouid. Pulchra. Mart. Delicatior hœdo puella. Ca. Diues. Ho. Sapiens.Ouid. Scelerata. Ouid.Doctæ puellæ.Ouid. Tenera. Ouid.Flaua puella. Iuue. Timida. Ouid.Formosa.Ouid. Trepida. Ouid.Hilaris.Ouid. Vaga. Prop. Infans. Hor. Verecunda. Ouid.Ingenua.Ouid. Innupta. Vir. Flore viridissimo puella. Catull. A mayde in hir most florishing time. Duræ puellæ blandiri precibus.Ouid.With faire intreatie to flatter an hardeharted maide.Candida me capiet, capiet me flaua puella.Ouid.Placidam exorare puellam.Ouid.Experta virum puella. Hor. A wenth that hath lyen wyth a man.Tetricæ data verba puellæ.Ouid.Laborantes vtero puellæ. Hor. Women great with child.Misereri dignæ puellæ.Ouid.Nara puella magno patre. Hor. Puellâs, & hoc puellâre, pe. pro. Quin. Proper to girles and wenches: childish: girlish.Aetas puellaris. Quinr. Girles age: childhoode.Animi puellares.Ouid. Anni puellares. Clau. Furor puellaris. Sen.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pŭella, ae (dat. and abl. plur. puellabus, Cn. Gell. ap. Charis. p. 39 P.), f. [puellus], a female child, a girl, maiden, lass.I.Lit.A. In gen.: eam nunc puellam filiam ejus quaerimus, Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 77: puellam parere, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 14: parvola puella, id. Eun. 1, 2, 29: puella infans, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 99: pueri atque puellae, id. S. 1, 1, 85; 2, 3, 130; Cic. Att. 1, 5, 6: audi, Luna, puellas, Hor. C. S. 36: puellarum chorus, id. C 2, 5, 21: pueri innuptaeque puellae, Verg. A. 6, 307.—B. In partic. 1.A beloved maiden, a sweetheart, mistress (poet.): vixi puellis nuper idoneus, Hor. C. 3, 26, 1: proditor puellae risus ab angulo, id. ib. 1, 9, 22: mendax, id. S. 1, 5, 82: cara, id. Ep. 1, 18, 74: blanda, Ov. Am. 2, 2, 34; Mart. 10, 109, 3 al.—Transf., in jest, of a kitten, Mart. 1, 109, 16.—2.A daughter: Danai puellae, Hor. C. 3, 11, 23.—II.Transf., in gen., a young female, young woman, young wife (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): puellae Jam virum expertes, Hor. C. 3, 14, 10: laborantes utero puellae, id. ib. 3, 22, 2: viduae cessate puellae, Ov. F. 2, 557. So of Penelope, who was married, Ov. H. 1, 115; of Antiope, Prop. 3, 13 (4, 14), 21; 34; of Phædra, Ov. H. 4, 2; of Helen, id. A. A. 1, 54 al.; of the wife of a second husband, Stat. S. 1, 2, 163; of Servilia, wife of the exiled Pollio, Tac. A. 16, 30; of Octavia, wife of Nero, id. ib. 14, 64; cf. Gell. 12, 1, 4.— B.A female slave (very rare), Hor. C. 4, 11, 10.