infant

• infaunt (obsolete)

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.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.fənt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnfənt

infant (plural infants)

1. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
2. (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, ...

3. (obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:

     Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].

• infant mortality
• junior infant, senior infant

• infanticide
• infantile

infant (third-person singular simple present infants, present participle infanting, simple past and past participle infanted)

1. (obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is […] infanted out of the same fears.

• sudden infant death syndrome
• newborn
• neonate

• Fintan

Borrowed from Latin īnfāns, īnfantem.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /imˈfant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /imˈfan/

infant m (plural infants)

1. infant, child
2. infante
3. footsoldier

• infanteria

• infància

• “infant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Spanish infante and Portuguese infante.

• IPA^(key): /ˈinfant/

infant m (genitive singular infanta, nominative plural infanti, genitive plural infantov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. prince, infante (son of a king in Spain and, historically, in Portugal)

• infantka f

• infant in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk