puerīlis e, adj. with comp. puer, boyish, childish, youthful: puerili specie, senili prudentiā: tempus, O.: vox: regnum, L.: agmen, a troop of boys, V.: (facies) in virgine, boyish, O.

—Boyish, childish, puerile, trivial, silly: acta res consilio puerili: inconstantia, T.: vota, O.: Si puerilius his ratio esse evincet amare, H.