different between stripling vs infant

English

Etymology

From Middle English stripling (“an adolescent, a youth (specifically one who is male); a child”) [and other forms], possibly from strepen (“to remove the clothes of, undress, strip; to peel off; to skin (an animal); to remove; to take something away from someone; to plunder, rob”) (connoting something that is stripped and thin, and yet to reach its full size) + -ling (suffix forming diminutives). Strepen is derived from Old English *str?pan (Anglian), *str?epan, *str?pan, *str?pan (West Saxon), from Proto-West Germanic *straupijan, from Proto-Germanic *straupijan? (“to strip; to pluck; to wipe”), from *streupan? (“to touch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strew-, *sterw-, *ster- (“a strip; a streak; a beam, ray”)) + *-jan? (suffix forming causatives from strong verbs with the sense of ‘to cause to do’). The English word is analysable as strip (“long, narrow piece”) +? -ling.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?st??pl??/
• Hyphenation: strip?ling

Noun

stripling (plural striplings)

1. (archaic, also attributive, sometimes humorous) A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. [from 14th c.].

   Synonyms: sapling, shaveling, (archaic, rare) springald; see also Thesaurus:boy
2. (horticulture) A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off.

Translations

References

Further reading

• adolescence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stripling (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stripling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stripling”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• spirtling, split-ring, triplings

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