different between junior vs puerile

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin junior, a contraction of iuvenior (“younger”) which is the comparative of iuvenis (“young”); see juvenile.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?u?n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?unj?/
• Rhymes: -u?ni?(?)
• Hyphenation: ju?nior

Adjective

junior (not generally comparable, comparative more junior, superlative most junior)

1. (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
2. (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
3. (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

     Though our first Studies and junior Endeavours may stile us Peripateticks, Stoicks, or Academicks, yet I perceive the wisest Heads prove at last, almost all Scepticks […]

4. (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.

Alternative forms

• juniour (obsolete)

Related terms

Translations

Noun

junior (plural juniors)

1. A younger person.
   • 1922, Angela Brazil, Monitress Merle

     Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.

   • 1939 P. G. Wodehouse, "Uncle Fred in the Springtime":

     The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.

2. A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
3. (chiefly US) A third-year student at a high school or university.
4. (law) A junior barrister.

Antonyms

• senior

Translations

Further reading

• junior at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin junior, juniorem; Doublet of geindre. Cf. also the inherited Old French oblique case gignor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.nj??/

Noun

junior m or f (plural juniors)

1. (sports) junior

Adjective

junior (plural juniors)

1. junior (all senses)

See also

• juveigneur

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iunior (“younger”), from Latin iuvenis (“young”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?junijor]
• Hyphenation: ju?ni?or
• Rhymes: -or

Noun

junior

1. (sports) junior

Declension

Synonyms

• ifjúsági

References

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin junior, i?nior, from Proto-Italic *juwenj?s, from *juwenis + *-j?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d??u?ni?r]
• Hyphenation: ju?ni?or

Adjective

junior

1. young

   Synonyms: anom, belia, mentah, muda, remaja, yuvenil, yuwana

2. junior.

Alternative forms

• yunior

Antonyms

• senior

Further reading

• “junior” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Adjective

j?nior (neuter j?nius, positive juvenis); third declension

1. Alternative form of i?nior

Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

References

• junior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Etymology

From Latin puer?lis (“childish”), from puer (“child, boy”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pj??.?a?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pj???l/, /?pj??a?l/

Adjective

puerile (comparative more puerile, superlative most puerile)

1. Childish; trifling; silly.

   Synonyms: juvenile, silly, trifling; see also Thesaurus:childish, Thesaurus:insignificant

   • 1850, Thomas De Quincey, French and English Manners (originally published in Hogg's Instructor

     The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.

   • 1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, page 79:

     From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,—he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.

   • 1930 July, West Kirby, Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, Preface (page 9 of the Dover 1968 reprint of L&FM and Star Maker):

     Today we should welcome, and even study, every serious attempt to envisage the future of our race, not merely to grasp the very diverse and often tragic possibilities that confront us, but also that we may familiarize ourselves with the certainty that many of our cherished ideals would seem puerile to more developed minds.

2. Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• puerilism
• puerility

Translations

See also

• boyish
• yobbish
• youthful

Anagrams

• pie rule

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

puerile

1. inflection of pueril:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

From Latin puer?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pwe?ri.le/

Adjective

puerile (plural puerili)

1. puerile, childish, juvenile, boyish
2. (rare, relational) children's, baby

Synonyms

• infantile

Related terms

Anagrams

• pelurie

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pu.e?ri?.le/, [pu???i????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pu.e?ri.le/, [pu???i?l?]

Adjective

puer?le

1. nominative neuter singular of puer?lis
2. accusative neuter singular of puer?lis
3. vocative neuter singular of puer?lis

References

• puerile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)