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Latin
Etymology
From īnfāns (“mute, speechless; young, little”) + -ia.
Pronunciation
Noun
īnfantia f (genitive īnfantiae); first declension
- inability to speak, muteness, speechlessness; want of eloquence, ineloquence
- infancy, early childhood; the young, children
- childishness
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Proverbs.1.22:
- usquequō, parvulī, dīligitis īnfantiam, et stultī ea quæ sibi sunt noxia cupient, et imprūdentēs odībunt scientiam
- O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge? (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “infantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infantia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- infantia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- infantia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.