cadet
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French cadet, from Gascon Occitan capdet, from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”). Attested in English from 1634.[1][2]
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Noun [edit]
cadet (plural cadets)
- A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- (largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
- (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
- a cadet branch of the family
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Translations [edit]
a student at a military school who is training to be an officer
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References [edit]
- ^ “cadet” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
- ^ “cadet” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
French [edit]
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Adjective [edit]
cadet m (feminine cadette, masculine plural cadets, feminine plural cadettes)
- (family) youngest
- le fils cadet
- the youngest son
- le fils cadet
Noun [edit]
cadet m (plural cadets)
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Verb [edit]
cadet
- third-person singular future active indicative of cadō "he (she, it) will fall"