enfant
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Middle French enfant, from Old French enfant, from Latin īnfantem.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
enfant m or f by sense (plural enfants)
- child (someone who is not yet an adult)
- child (offspring of any age)
- son, native (of a place)
- enfant de Paris ― Paris native
- enfant des États-Unis ― native of the United States
- enfant du pays ― native of the country
Usage notesEdit
Rarely used as a feminine noun.
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Saint Dominican Creole French: z'enfant
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “enfant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French enfant.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
enfant m (plural enfanz)
DescendantsEdit
- French: enfant
OccitanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably borrowed from Latin īnfāns, īnfāntem.
NounEdit
enfant m (plural enfants)
Related termsEdit
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably borrowed from Latin īnfāntem, accusative singular of īnfāns. The nominative form enfes derives from the Latin nominative form īnfāns.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
enfant m (oblique plural enfanz, nominative singular enfes, nominative plural enfant)
- child
- 13th century, Herman de Valenciennes, Assomption Nostre Dame, page 8, column 1, line 28:
- totes les puceles & trestuit li enfant
- All the young women and all the children