infantia
Latin
Etymology
From īnfāns (“mute, speechless; young, little”) + -ia.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈfan.ti.a/, [ĩːˈfän̪t̪iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈfan.t͡si.a/, [iɱˈfänt̪͡s̪iä]
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)
- usquequō, parvulī, dīligitis īnfantiam, et stultī ea quæ sibi sunt noxia cupient, et imprūdentēs odībunt scientiam
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | īnfantia | īnfantiae |
| Genitive | īnfantiae | īnfantiārum |
| Dative | īnfantiae | īnfantiīs |
| Accusative | īnfantiam | īnfantiās |
| Ablative | īnfantiā | īnfantiīs |
| Vocative | īnfantia | īnfantiae |
Related terms
- īnfandus
- īnfāns
- īnfantārius
- īnfanticīda
- īnfanticīdium
- īnfantilis
- īnfantō
- īnfantula
- īnfantulus
Descendants
- French: enfance
- → Catalan: infància
- → English: infancy
- → Italian: infanzia
- → Portuguese: infância
- → Spanish: infancia
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