infantia

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Latin

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Etymology

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From īnfāns (mute, speechless; young, little) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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īnfantia f (genitive īnfantiae); first declension

  1. inability to speak, muteness, speechlessness; want of eloquence, ineloquence
  2. infancy, early childhood; the young, children
  3. childishness
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.1.22:
      usquequō, parvulī, dīligitis īnfantiam, et stultī ea quæ sibi sunt noxia cupient, et imprūdentēs odībunt scientiam
      O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge? (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative īnfantia īnfantiae
Genitive īnfantiae īnfantiārum
Dative īnfantiae īnfantiīs
Accusative īnfantiam īnfantiās
Ablative īnfantiā īnfantiīs
Vocative īnfantia īnfantiae
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Descendants

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  • French: enfance
  • Catalan: infància
  • English: infancy
  • Galician: infancia
  • Italian: infanzia
  • Portuguese: infância
  • Spanish: infancia

References

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  • infantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • infantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • infantia 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)
  • infantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.