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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Latin for girl
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"Puella" is what most people were taught in school was the Latin word for "girl", but actually "Virgo" was the word normally used in classical Latin. The Victorians didn't like that word because of its sexual connotations, and so preferred the much rarer word "Puella", which is a feminine form of the standard word for "boy" - "Puer".