infans

Latin

Etymology

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From in- +‎ fāns.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fans/, [ˈĩːfä̃ːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fans/, [ˈiɱfäns] *
  
  

Adjective

īnfāns (genitive īnfantis, comparative īnfantior, superlative īnfantissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. speechless, inarticulate
2. newborn
3. childish, foolish

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	īnfāns			īnfantēs	īnfantia
Genitive	īnfantis			īnfantium
Dative	īnfantī			īnfantibus
Accusative	īnfantem	īnfāns		īnfantēs	īnfantia
Ablative	īnfantī			īnfantibus
Vocative	īnfāns			īnfantēs	īnfantia

Noun

īnfāns m or f (genitive īnfantis); third declension

1. an infant

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īnfāns	īnfantēs
Genitive	īnfantis	īnfantium
Dative	īnfantī	īnfantibus
Accusative	īnfantem	īnfantēs īnfantīs
Ablative	īnfante	īnfantibus
Vocative	īnfāns	īnfantēs

Related terms

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Descendants

• English: infant
• Esperanto: infano
• Old French: enfes (direct), enfant (oblique)
  • French: enfant
• Italian: infante
• Norman: êfant

• Old Occitan: enfas (direct), enfant (oblique)
  • Occitan: enfant, enfan
• Old Galician-Portuguese: ifante, infante
  • Galician: infante
  • Portuguese: infante

• Old Spanish: ifante
  • Spanish: infante
• Romansch: unfant, uffant, affon, iffaunt, unfànt
• Russian: инфа́нт (infánt)

References

• “infans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infans in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• infans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “infans”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “infans”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin