cadet

Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634.^[1][2]

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

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈdɛt/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: ca‧det

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 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] 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.

• cadette

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• acted, ectad

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

• IPA^(key): /ka.dɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

1. (family) younger, youngest

   le fils cadet ― the youngest son

   mon frère cadet ― my younger brother

cadet m (plural cadets)

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

   Synonym: puîné

   Coordinate terms: aîné, benjamin

• cadet des soucis de

• → Czech: kadet
• → English: cadet
  • → Cebuano: kadete (with Spanish cadete)
• → Dutch: kadee, kadet
• → German: Kadett
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: кадет
    • Latin script: kadet
  • → Vilamovian: kadet
• → Finnish: kadetti
• → Indonesian: kadet
• → Italian: cadetto
• → Polish: kadet
• → Portuguese: cadete
• → Russian: кадет (kadet)
  • → English: Kadet
• → Scots: caddie
  • → English: caddie, caddy, cad
• → Spanish: cadete
  • → Cebuano: kadete (with English cadet)

• benjamin

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

• cédât

cadet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of cadō

Borrowed from French cadet.

cadet m (plural cadeți)

1. cadet