puer

Although technically, according to the ages of man as described by Isidore and Avicenna (the two most commonly invoked systems), the term puer denoted a child (ages seven to ten) in the period following and distinct from infancy (birth to ten years), many authors used puer interchangeably with infans.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

The term puer was used interchangeably with infans, lactans, parvus, and parvulus.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Note 8: I shall postpone a discussion of the gendered significance of the term puer until later, in the final section, where the inclusion of girls among the crowd takes on great significance.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Well into the sixteenth century the cedilla is often found wrongly added to words such as puer, equus, eruditus, epistola; in 1550 the Froben firm was still regularly printing aedo, aeditio; and in the index to an edition of Aquinas, Venice, 1593, aenigma and Aegyptus, spelt in this way, are only to be found under e.

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

This precocious introduction of Rabanus as "puer oblatus" in the Benedictine monastic world, and the fruits that it gave for his human, cultural and spiritual growth, opened up very interesting possibilities not only for the life of the monks, but also for the whole of society of his time, normally referred to as "Carolingian."

Benedict on the Liturgy: "The Faith is not only thought" 2009

If integrative medicine is to transform itself from a puer aeternis into a responsible participant in shaping U.S. policy, this strategic plan under the Affordable Care Act needs contributors, more Partners for Health and deeper pockets.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012

Clearly, the superintendant of schools is hovering in some netherworld puer state, because he certainly has not grown up from the sixties.

The Purple Haze of Public Education... 2009

If integrative medicine is to transform itself from a puer aeternis into a responsible participant in shaping U.S. policy, this strategic plan under the Affordable Care Act needs contributors, more Partners for Health and deeper pockets.

John Weeks: Help Wanted! IHPC Stakeholder Report Details Integrative Medicine Opportunities in the Affordable Care Act John Weeks 2012

A creature of idyll and elegy, he's defined by his youth (and loss (like Daphnis)) -- a puer aeternus who can't be a conventional tragic hero in the overman sense because he's not yet reached the age where he * gets* the deontic modalities society would wrap him up in.

A Theory of Modes and Modalities Hal Duncan 2009

[1] Clubbe's translation of The Farmer's Boy, entitled Agricolæ puer, poema Roberti Bloomfield celeberrimum; in versus latinos redditum.

Letter 145 2009