enfance
French
Etymology
From Old French enfance, borrowed from Latin īnfāntia, from īnfāns (“unable to speak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.fɑ̃s/
audio (l'enfance) (file)
Noun
enfance f (plural enfances)
- (countable and uncountable) childhood
Derived terms
- centre de la petite enfance
Related terms
- enfant
- enfantin
Further reading
- “enfance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin īnfāntia.
Noun
enfance f (oblique plural enfances, nominative singular enfance, nominative plural enfances)
- childhood
Related terms
- enfant
Descendants
- French: enfance
- → Middle English: infancie, enfaunce, infancia, infancy, infaunce (in part)
- English: infancy