infante

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

infante (plural infantes)

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

• infanta

• “infante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• fainten

infante f (plural infantes)

1. infante

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

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

• IPA^(key): [iɱˈfantɪ]

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

infante f (plural infantes)

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

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

• “infante” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “infante” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “infante” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “infante” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “infante” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

infante (plural infantes)

1. child, infant

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

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

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infante (plural infanti)

1. (dated, rare, relational) infant

infante m or f by sense (plural infanti)

1. (dated, rare) baby, infant

   Synonyms: bambino, bimbo, neonato

infante f (plural infanti)

1. infanta (in Spain & Portugal)

• infanticida
• infanticidio
• infantile
• infanzia

• fantine, nafteni

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

īnfante

1. ablative singular of īnfāns

infante

1. Alternative form of infaunt

From Latin infans, infantem (“infant”).

• IPA^(key): /ĩ.ˈfan.te/

infante

1. (rare) child
2. prince, infante
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 122 (facsimile):

     Como ſanta maria reſucitou hũa infante filla dun Rei

     How Holy Mary resurrected the daughter of a King.

• Galician: infante
• Portuguese: infante

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

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

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

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

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)

infante m or f (plural infantes)

1. infant

Borrowed from Spanish infante.

infante m (plural infanți)

1. infante

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

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

infante m (plural infantes)

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

   Synonym: príncipe

3. foot soldier, infantryman

   Synonym: peón

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