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Mac13eth asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 1 decade ago

What is the Latin word for 'puppet'?

Nominative declension please. Any similar words would also be helpful.

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  • AskAsk
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    "Pupa" is doll. For "puppet", it seems like the Greek word "Neurospasta" was often used. However, when Horace writes "you are moved like a wooden puppet by wires that others pull" he uses the words "duceris ut nervis alienis mobile lignum". In my dictionary, "mobile lignum" = "wooden doll with mobile limbs". So "nervis mobile lignum" is a puppet on strings.

    Smith & Hall English-Latin dictionary says: "Puppet: 1. Pupa (a doll) 2. neurospasta, on, n.pl. (i.e. figures pulled by strings): comp. Gell. 14,1, ut plane homines non, quod dicitur .... sed ludicra et ridenda quaedam neurospasta esse videantur ..."

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Latin Word For Master

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That would be:

    pupulus, pupuli if you mean it as an imitation of a little boy,

    or you'd have to go to:

    automatum, automati if you want to stress up the mechanical-like gestures of the puppet

  • 1 decade ago

    Marioneta

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    its up,down to the left,diagnalright,diagnle right,straight across from the middle,acrossthetop, straight down from middle of the top,o stopping point then skip alittle and straight down where you been going, up diagnal down then up so,,i have to so the wreal word for puppet is its all the letters put together because we use them to gospel about things that we arent aroun and can use

    its the ghost in the machine to say,

    but the latin word for puppet is really human?/

  • 1 decade ago

    the meaning is marioneta(puppet),

    you use them the same way in latinamerica, usually teachers and parents play with them to teach their kids, or just to play with the kids...good look

    Source(s): native speaker
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