cadet

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634.

Doublet of caddie, cadel, capitellum, caudillo, and Kadet.

Pronunciation

Noun

cadet (plural cadets)

  1. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
  2. (chiefly history) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
    • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: , volume II, London: T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 114:
      Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a Baronet's family. By the time he is four or five and twenty he will have seven hundred a year, and nothing to do for it.
  3. (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)
    a cadet branch of the family
  4. (archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
  5. (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
  6. (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.

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References

  1. ^ “cadet”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cadet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Doublet of chapiteau, cadeau, and caudillo.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cadet (feminine cadette, masculine plural cadets, feminine plural cadettes)

  1. (family) youngest
    le fils cadet ― the youngest son

Noun

cadet m (plural cadets)

  1. cadet, student officer
  2. junior sportsperson, young player
  3. a younger sibling

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Latin

Verb

cadet

  1. third-person singular future active indicative of cadō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadet.

Noun

cadet m (plural cadeți)

  1. cadet

Declension

Declension of cadet
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cadet cadetul (niște) cadeți cadeții
genitive/dative (unui) cadet cadetului (unor) cadeți cadeților
vocative cadetule cadeților
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