infant
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- infaunt (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.
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NounEdit
infant (plural infants)
- A very young human being, from conception to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
- Synonym: baby
- (law) A minor.
- 1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735], De Term. S. Trin. 1731, page 602:
- Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...
- 1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735], De Term. S. Trin. 1731, page 602:
- (obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].
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VerbEdit
infant (third-person singular simple present infants, present participle infanting, simple past and past participle infanted)
- (obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:
- This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is […] infanted out of the same fears.
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CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin īnfāns, īnfantem.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
infant m (plural infants)
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Further readingEdit
- “infant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
FrenchEdit
NounEdit
infant m (plural infants, feminine infante)
- infant (title)
Further readingEdit
- “infant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
infant
- Alternative form of infaunt
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish infante and Portuguese infante, from Latin īnfāns.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
infant m pers (feminine infantka)
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SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
Derived from Spanish infante and Portuguese infante.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
infant m anim (genitive singular infanta, nominative plural infanti, genitive plural infantov, declension pattern of chlap)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- infantka f
ReferencesEdit
- infant in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk