enfance

From Old French enfance, borrowed from Latin īnfāntia, from īnfāns (“unable to speak”)

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.fɑ̃s/

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enfance f (plural enfances)

1. (countable and uncountable) childhood

• enfant
• enfantin

• “enfance” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Latin īnfāntia.

enfance f (oblique plural enfances, nominative singular enfance, nominative plural enfances)

1. childhood

• enfant

• French: enfance