infante
English
Etymology
From Spanish infante and Portuguese infante, both from Latin īnfāns (“child”). Doublet of infant. Cognate with infantry.
Noun
infante (plural infantes)
- (historical) Any son of the king of Spain or Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “infante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Interlingua
Noun
infante (plural infantes)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnfans, īnfantem. Doublet of the inherited fante.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
infante (plural infanti)
Noun
infante m or f (plural infanti)
Noun
infante f (plural infanti)
- infanta (in Spain & Portugal)
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Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) īnfante
Old Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin infans, infantem (“infant”).
Pronunciation
Noun
infante m or f (plural infantes)
- (rare) child
- prince, infante
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 122 (facsimile):
- Como ſanta maria reſucitou hũa infante filla dun Rei
- How Holy Mary resurrected the daughter of a King.
- Como ſanta maria reſucitou hũa infante filla dun Rei
Descendants
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- ifante (obsolete), iffante (obsolete), yfante (obsolete), yffante (obsolete)
- inffante (obsolete), ynfante (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese infante, from Latin infans, infantem (“infant”).
Cognate with Galician infante, Spanish infante, French enfant and Italian infante.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: in‧fan‧te
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃ntʃi
Noun
infante m (plural infantes, feminine infanta, feminine plural infantas)
- infant (very young human being)
- (military) a soldier of the infantry
- prince, infante (the son of a king in Spain and Portugal)
Adjective
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Spanish
Etymology
From an alteration of Old Spanish ifante, from Latin īnfāns, īnfāntem.
Noun
infante m (plural infantes)
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