infantia

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈfan.ti.a/, [ĩːˈfän̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈfan.t͡si.a/, [iɱˈfänt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

īnfantia f (genitive īnfantiae); first declension

1. inability to speak, muteness, speechlessness; want of eloquence, ineloquence
2. infancy, early childhood; childishness; the young, children

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Related terms

• īnfandus
• īnfāns
• īnfantārius
• īnfanticīda
• īnfanticīdium

• īnfantilis
• īnfantō
• īnfantula
• īnfantulus

Descendants

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

References

• “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.