different between infante vs infant

English

Etymology

From Spanish infante and Portuguese infante, both from Latin ?nf?ns (“child”). Doublet of infant. Cognate with infantry.

Noun

infante (plural infantes)

1. (historical) Any son of the king of Spain or Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent.

Related terms

• infanta

Translations

Anagrams

• fainten

Interlingua

Noun

infante (plural infantes)

1. child, infant

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nfans, ?nfantem. Doublet of the inherited fante.

Pronunciation

Adjective

infante (plural infanti)

1. (dated, rare) infant (attr.)

Noun

infante m or f (plural infanti)

1. (dated, rare) baby, infant

   Synonyms: bambino, bimbo, neonato

Noun

infante f (plural infanti)

1. infanta (in Spain & Portugal)

Derived terms

• infanticida
• infanticidio
• infantile
• infanzia

Anagrams

• fantine

Latin

Noun

?nfante

1. ablative singular of ?nf?ns

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin infans, infantem (“infant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?fan.te/

Noun

infante

1. (rare) child
2. prince, infante

   • Como ?anta maria re?ucitou h?a infante filla dun Rei

     How Holy Mary resurrected the daughter of a King.

Descendants

• Galician: infante
• Portuguese: infante

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ifante (obsolete), iffante (obsolete), yfante (obsolete), yffante (obsolete)
• inffante (obsolete), ynfante (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese infante, from Latin infans, infantem (“infant”).

Cognate with Galician infante, Spanish infante, French enfant and Italian infante.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): / ?.?f??.t? /
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): / ?.?f??.t??i /
• Hyphenation: in?fan?te
• Rhymes: -??nt?i

Noun

infante m (plural infantes, feminine infanta, feminine plural infantas)

1. infant (very young human being)
2. (military) a soldier of the infantry
3. prince, infante (the son of a king in Spain and Portugal)

Adjective

infante m or f (plural infantes, comparable)

1. infant

Spanish

Etymology

From an alteration of Old Spanish ifante, from Latin ?nf?ns, ?nf?ntem.

Noun

infante m (plural infantes)

1. infant
2. infante
3. foot soldier, infantryman

Related terms

• infanta

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