puerum
Puerum is the accusative singular form of the Latin noun puer, which means a boy or young male child. Puer is a masculine noun of the second declension and is commonly found in classical, medieval, and ecclesiastical Latin. The singular forms are Nominative puer, Genitive pueri, Dative puero, Accusative puerum, Ablative puero; the plural forms are Nominative pueri, Genitive puerorum, Dative pueris, Accusative pueros, Ablative pueris. Puerum is therefore used when the boy is the direct object of a verb, as in video puerum (“I see a boy”).
Usage and derivatives include expressions related to boyhood or childish qualities. Puer can be combined with
Notes on style and morphology: as a second-declension noun, puer follows typical gender and case patterns of