infant
English
Alternative forms
- infaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.
Pronunciation
Noun
infant (plural infants)
- A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
- Synonym: baby
- (law) A minor.
- 1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]: De Term. S. Trin. 1731, page 602:
- Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...
- (obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].
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Verb
infant (third-person singular simple present infants, present participle infanting, simple past and past participle infanted)
- (obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:
- This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is […] infanted out of the same fears.
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
infant m (plural infants)
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Further reading
- “infant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish infante, from Latin īnfāns.
Pronunciation
Noun
infant m anim (feminine infantka)
- (historical) infante (son of the king of Spain or Portugal)
Declension
Further reading
- infant in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- infant in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- infant in Internetová jazyková příručka
French
Noun
infant m (plural infants, feminine infante)
- infant (title)
Further reading
- “infant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
infant
- Alternative form of infaunt
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish infante and Portuguese infante, from Latin īnfāns.
Pronunciation
Noun
infant m pers (female equivalent infantka)
Declension
Further reading
- infant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- infant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Slovak
Etymology
Derived from Spanish infante and Portuguese infante.
Pronunciation
Noun
infant m anim (genitive singular infanta, nominative plural infanti, genitive plural infantov, declension pattern of chlap)
Declension
Derived terms
- infantka f
References
- “infant”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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