infans

Latin

Etymology

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Proto-Italic *n̥--

Latin in-

Latin fāns

Latin īnfāns

From in- + fāns. Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *otrokъ (whence Russian о́трок (ótrok), Slovene otrȍk) (< *otъ + *reťi).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈĩː.fãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiɱ.fans]

• Audio (classical):

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Adjective

īnfāns (genitive īnfantis, comparative īnfantior, superlative īnfantissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. speechless, inarticulate
2. newborn
3. childish, foolish

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	īnfāns			īnfantēs	īnfantia
genitive	īnfantis			īnfantium
dative	īnfantī			īnfantibus
accusative	īnfantem	īnfāns		īnfantīs īnfantēs	īnfantia
ablative	īnfantī īnfante			īnfantibus
vocative	īnfāns			īnfantēs	īnfantia

Noun

īnfāns m or f (genitive īnfantis); third declension

1. an infant
2. (in later Latin) a boy, a girl (under the age of 7)

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	īnfāns	īnfantēs
genitive	īnfantis	īnfantium
dative	īnfantī	īnfantibus
accusative	īnfantem	īnfantēs īnfantīs
ablative	īnfante	īnfantibus
vocative	īnfāns	īnfantēs

Related terms

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Descendants

• Esperanto: infano
• Old Francoprovençal: enfás (direct), enfant (oblique)
  • Franco-Provençal: enfant
• Old French: enfés (direct), enfant (oblique)
  • French: enfant
  • Norman: effant
• Dalmatian: infant
• Italian: fante
• → Italian: infante
• → Middle English: infaunt, infant, infante, infaunte, enfaunt (after Anglo-Norman enfaunt)
  • English: infant
• Old Occitan: enfas (direct), enfant (oblique)
  • Occitan: enfant, enfan
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: enfante
  • Leonese: infante, ifante
• Old Galician-Portuguese: ifante, infante
  • Galician: infante
  • Portuguese: infante
• Old Spanish: ifante
  • Spanish: infante
• Romansh: unfant, uffant, affon, iffaunt, unfànt
• → Russian: инфа́нт (infánt)

References

• “infans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "infans", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “infans”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “infans”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “infans”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin