different between infant vs swaddling

English

Alternative forms

• infaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English infante, infaunte, borrowed from Latin ?nfantem, accusative masculine singular of ?nf?ns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from ?n- (“not”) + f?ns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.f?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nf?nt

Noun

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.
   • Synonym: baby
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 [...].

Derived terms

• infant mortality
• junior infant, senior infant

Related terms

• infancy
• infanteer, infantier
• infanticide
• infantile
• infantry
• infante, infanta

Translations

Verb

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.

See also

• sudden infant death syndrome
• newborn
• neonate

Anagrams

• Fintan

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nf?ns, ?nfantem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /im?fant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /im?fan/

Noun

infant m (plural infants)

1. infant, child
2. infante
3. footsoldier

Derived terms

• infanteria

Related terms

• infància

Further reading

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

Slovak

Etymology

From Spanish infante and Portuguese infante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?infant]

Noun

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)

Declension

Derived terms

• infantka f

References

• infant in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

English

Etymology

From Middle English swaþelynge; equivalent to swaddle +? -ing.

Verb

swaddling

1. present participle of swaddle

Noun

swaddling (countable and uncountable, plural swaddlings)

1. The practice of wrapping infants in clothing that restricts movement.
2. Clothing of this kind.

Derived terms

• swaddling clothes

Translations

Further reading

• swaddling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dawdlings, waddlings