infante

From Spanish infante and Portuguese infante, both from Latin īnfāntem (“child”). Doublet of infant. Cognate with infantry.

infante (plural infantes)

1. (historical) Any son of the king of Spain or Portugal, sometimes except the eldest or heir apparent.

• infanta

• “infante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• fainten

Doublet of enfant.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɑ̃t/
• Hyphenation: in‧fante

infante f (plural infantes)

1. infante

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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese infante, a borrowing from Latin īnfantem (“infant”). Cognate with Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian infante, French enfant.

• IPA^(key): /inˈfante/ [iɱˈfan̪.t̪ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: in‧fan‧te

infante m (plural infantes, feminine infanta, feminine plural infantas)

1. infant (very young human being)
2. (military) a soldier of the infantry
3. prince, infante (the son of a king in Spain and Portugal)
4. (botany) deadnettle

infante f (plural infantes)

1. (archaic) princess (the daughter of a king in Spain and Portugal)

• Vilanova dos Infantes (place name: Vilanova das Infantes, originally)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “infante”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “infante”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “infante”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “infante”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “infante”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

infante (plural infantes)

1. child, infant

Borrowed from Latin īnfāntem. Doublet of the inherited fante.

• IPA^(key): /inˈfan.te/
• Rhymes: -ante
• Hyphenation: in‧fàn‧te

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infante m or f (plural infanti)

1. (dated, rare, relational) infant

infante m or f by sense (plural infanti)

1. (dated, rare) baby, infant

   Synonyms: bambino, bimbo, neonato

infante f (plural infanti)

1. infanta (in Spain & Portugal)

• infanticida
• infanticidio
• infantile
• infanzia

• fantine, nafteni

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩːˈfan.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iɱˈfan̪.t̪e]

īnfante

1. ablative singular of īnfāns

infante

1. alternative form of infaunt

From Latin infans, infantem (“infant”).

• IPA^(key): /ĩ.ˈfan.te/

infante m or f (plural infantes)

1. (rare) child
2. prince, infante
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 122 (facsimile):

     Como ſanta maria reſucitou hũa infante filla dun Rei

     How Holy Mary resurrected the daughter of a King.

• Galician: infante
• Portuguese: infante

• ifante, iffante, inffante (obsolete)
• yfante, yffante, ynfante (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese infante, a borrowing from Latin īnfantem (“infant”).

Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Italian infante, French enfant.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨ
• Hyphenation: in‧fan‧te

infante m (plural infantes, feminine infanta, feminine plural infantas)

1. infant (very young human being)
2. (military) a soldier of the infantry
3. prince, infante (the son of a king in Spain and Portugal)

infante m or f (plural infantes)

1. infant

• “infante”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “infante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Spanish infante.

infante m (plural infanți)

1. infante

From an alteration of Old Spanish ifante, from Latin īnfāns, īnfāntem.

• IPA^(key): /inˈfante/ [ĩɱˈfãn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ante
• Syllabification: in‧fan‧te

infante m (plural infantes)

1. infant
2. prince, infante (son of a king)

   Synonym: príncipe

3. foot soldier, infantryman

   Synonym: peón

• “infante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024