infante

English

Etymology

From Spanish infante and Portuguese infante, both from Latin īnfāns (“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

son of the king of Spain or Portugal

• French: infant (fr) m
• Galician: infante m
• German: Infant (de) m
• Italian: infante (it) m
• Khmer: អ្នកអង្គម្ចាស់ (km) (nĕək ʼɑng mcah)
• Old Portuguese: infante m
• Polish: infant (pl) m
• Portuguese: infante (pt) m
• Romanian: infante (ro) m
• Slovak: infant m
• Spanish: infante (es) m

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• fainten

French

Noun

infante f (plural infantes)

1. infante

Further reading

• “infante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua

Noun

infante (plural infantes)

1. child, infant

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese infante, a borrowing from Latin īnfantem (“infant”). Cognate with Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian infante, French enfant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iɱˈfantɪ]

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)
4. (botany) deadnettle

Noun

infante f (plural infantes)

1. (archaic) princess (the daughter of a king in Spain and Portugal)

Derived terms

• Vilanova dos Infantes (place name: Vilanova das Infantes, originally)

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “infante”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “infante”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “infante”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “infante”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “infante”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfantem, īnfantem. Doublet of the inherited fante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈfan.te/
• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: in‧fàn‧te

• Audio:

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Adjective

infante (plural infanti)

1. (dated, rare, relational) infant

Noun

infante m or f by sense (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, nafteni

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /inˈfan.te/, [ĩːˈfän̪t̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈfan.te/, [iɱˈfän̪t̪e]

Noun

īnfante

1. ablative singular of īnfāns

Middle English

Noun

infante

1. Alternative form of infaunt

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin infans, infantem (“infant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ĩ.ˈfan.te/

Noun

infante m or f (plural infantes)

1. (rare) child
2. 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.

Descendants

• Galician: infante
• Portuguese: infante

Portuguese

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese infante, a borrowing from Latin īnfantem (“infant”).

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩˈfɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩˈfɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩˈfɐ̃.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩˈfɐ̃.tɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
• Hyphenation: in‧fan‧te

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)

1. infant

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish infante.

Noun

infante m (plural infanți)

1. infante

Declension

Declension of infante

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) infante	infanteul	(niște) infanți	infanții
genitive/dative	(unui) infante	infanteului	(unor) infanți	infanților
vocative	infanteule		infanților

Spanish

Etymology

From an alteration of Old Spanish ifante, from Latin īnfāns, īnfāntem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈfante/ [ĩɱˈfãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: in‧fan‧te

Noun

infante m (plural infantes)

1. infant
2. prince, infante (son of a king)

   Synonym: príncipe

3. foot soldier, infantryman

   Synonym: peón

Derived terms

• infante de coro
• infante de marina
• jardín de infantes

 

Related terms

• infanta

 

Further reading

• “infante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014