infante

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish infante and Portuguese infante, both from Latin īnfāns (child). Doublet of infant. Cognate with infantry.

Noun[edit]

infante (plural infantes)

  1. (historical) Any son of the king of Spain or Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent.

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Translations[edit]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “infante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French[edit]

Noun[edit]

infante f (plural infantes)

  1. infante

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Interlingua[edit]

Noun[edit]

infante (plural infantes)

  1. child, infant

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin īnfantem, īnfantem. Doublet of the inherited fante.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /inˈfan.te/
  • Rhymes: -ante
  • Hyphenation: in‧fàn‧te
  • (file)

Adjective[edit]

infante (plural infanti)

  1. (dated, rare, relational) infant

Noun[edit]

infante m or f by sense (plural infanti)

  1. (dated, rare) baby, infant
    Synonyms: bambino, bimbo, neonato

Noun[edit]

infante f (plural infanti)

  1. infanta (in Spain & Portugal)

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Latin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

īnfante

  1. ablative singular of īnfāns

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

infante

  1. Alternative form of infaunt

Old Galician-Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin infans, infantem (infant).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

infante

  1. (rare) child
  2. prince, infante

Descendants[edit]

  • Galician: infante
  • Portuguese: infante

Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese infante, a borrowing from Latin īnfantem (infant).

Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Italian infante, French enfant.

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Noun[edit]

infante m (plural infantes, feminine infanta, feminine plural infantas)

  1. infant (very young human being)
  2. (military) a soldier of the infantry
  3. prince, infante (the son of a king in Spain and Portugal)

Adjective[edit]

infante m or f (plural infantes)

  1. infant

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish infante.

Noun[edit]

infante m (plural infanți)

  1. infante

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Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From an alteration of Old Spanish ifante, from Latin īnfāns, īnfāntem.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /inˈfante/ [ĩɱˈfãn̪.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ante
  • Syllabification: in‧fan‧te

Noun[edit]

infante m (plural infantes)

  1. infant
  2. prince, infante (son of a king)
    Synonym: príncipe
  3. foot soldier, infantryman
    Synonym: peón

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