infançon
Old Portuguese
FWOTD – 30 June 2013
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ĩ.fã.ˈt͡sõ/
Noun
infançon m (plural infanções)
- a noble ranked below a ricome and above a cavaleiro
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 55 (facsimile):
- ⁊ cuidaron que fill era dinfançon ou dinfançõa
- and they thought that he might be the son of an infançon or of an infançon’s wife
- ⁊ cuidaron que fill era dinfançon ou dinfançõa
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Coordinate terms
- infançõa
- (Portuguese fidalgo ranks) fidalgo; ricome, infançon, cavaleiro, escudeiro