cadet
See also: Cadet
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634.[1][2]
Doublet of caddie, cadel, capitellum, caudillo, and Kadet.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kəˈdɛt/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
- Hyphenation: ca‧det
Noun edit
cadet (plural cadets)
- A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- (chiefly history) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 114:
- Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a Baronet's family. By the time he is four or five and twenty he will have seven hundred a year, and nothing to do for it.
- (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
- a cadet branch of the family
- (archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
- (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
- (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
a student at a military school who is training to be an officer
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younger son
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References edit
- ^ “cadet”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cadet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Occitan capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Doublet of chapiteau, cadeau, and caudillo.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cadet (feminine cadette, masculine plural cadets, feminine plural cadettes)
- (family) youngest
- le fils cadet ― the youngest son
Noun edit
cadet m (plural cadets)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Czech: kadet
- → English: cadet
- → Dutch: kadee, kadet
- → German: Kadett
- → Finnish: kadetti
- → Indonesian: kadet
- → Italian: cadetto
- → Polish: kadet
- → Portuguese: cadete
- → Russian: кадет (kadet)
- → English: Kadet
- → Scots: caddie
- → Spanish: cadete
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “cadet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Verb edit
cadet
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cadet m (plural cadeți)