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infant

SubstantivAdjektivVerbhäufig in Dialogen

  • //ˈɪn.fənt//

A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.

  2. 2

    A minor.

    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. 3

    A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.

  4. 4

    veraltetA noble or aristocratic youth.

    Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].

Herkunft

Inherited from Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to the earlier half of primary school education.

    Primary schooling in Ireland comprises two Infant years, which are equivalent to pre-school in other countries , and six grades or classes.

    Clearly, from the attention given to it, HMI believed that history should be part of the infant curriculum.

  2. 2

    übertragensmall, being near its source.

    Leaving Nantyglo, a small station at an altitude of 1,030 ft. with the platform on the eastern side, the train runs northwards over former G.W.R. metals, with the infant River Ebbw, a little more than a yard wide, on the west.

Verb

  1. 1

    veraltetTo bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.

    This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is […] infanted out of the same fears.

Formen

Plural
infants
Präteritum
infanted
Partizip II
infanted
Partizip I
infanting
3. Person Singular
infants
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