infans

From in- +‎ fāns.

For the similar semantic development compare Proto-Slavic *otrokъ (whence Russian о́трок (ótrok), Slovene otrȍk) < *otъ + *reťi.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈĩː.fãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiɱ.fans]

īnfāns (genitive īnfantis, comparative īnfantior, superlative īnfantissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. speechless, inarticulate
2. newborn
3. childish, foolish

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

īnfāns m or f (genitive īnfantis); third declension

1. an infant
2. (in later Latin) a boy, a girl (under the age of 7)

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• for

• “infans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "infans", 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)
• infans in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “infans”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “infans”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin