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infantile
English
Etymology
Mid-15th century, "pertaining to infants," from Latin infantilis (“pertaining to an infant”), from ?nf?ns. Sense of "infant-like" is from 1772.
Adjective
infantile (comparative more infantile, superlative most infantile)
- Pertaining to infants.
- infantile paralysis
- Childish; immature.
Synonyms
- (childish): puerile, milky; see also Thesaurus:childish
Derived terms
- infantilely
- infantilise
Translations
References
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.f??.til/
Adjective
infantile (plural infantiles)
- infantile
Derived terms
- infantilisateur
- infantilisation
- infantiliser
- infantilité
See also
- enfance
- enfant
Italian
Etymology
From Latin infantilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in.fan?ti.le/
Adjective
infantile (plural infantili)
- infantile (relating to children or babies)
- infantile puerile, childish, babyish
- Synonym: puerile
Derived terms
- infantilismo
- infantilità
- infantilmente
Related terms
- infanzia
Anagrams
- infilante
Further reading
- infantile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Swedish
Adjective
infantile
- absolute definite natural masculine form of infantil.
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callow
English
Etymology
From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“callow, bare, bald”), from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European gel(H)wo- (“naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Russian ?????? (gólyj, “nude”), Latin calvus (“bald”), Persian ??? (kal), Sanskrit ????? (kulvá).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?kælo?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kal??/
- Rhymes: -æl??
Adjective
callow (comparative callower or more callow, superlative callowest or most callow)
- Unfledged (of a young bird).
- (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
- Antonyms: mature, experienced
- Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
- Shallow or weak-willed.
- (of a brick) Unburnt.
- Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
- (obsolete) Bald.
Translations
Noun
callow (countable and uncountable, plural callows)
- A callow young bird.
- A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
- An alluvial flat.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “callow”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- low-cal
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