cadet

cadet

See also: Cadet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cadet, from Gascon capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Attested in English from 1634.[1][2]

Doublet of caddy, caudillo, and capitellum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈdɛt/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: ca‧det

Noun

cadet (plural cadets)

1. A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
2. (largely historical) A younger or youngest son, who would not inherit as a firstborn son would.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 114:

     Bertram is certainly well off for a cadet of even a Baronet's family. By the time he is four or five and twenty he will have seven hundred a year, and nothing to do for it.

3. (in compounds, chiefly in genealogy) Junior. (See also the heraldic term cadency.)

   a cadet branch of the family

4. (archaic, US, slang) A young man who makes a business of ruining girls to put them in brothels.
5. (New Zealand, historical) A young gentleman learning sheep farming at a station; also, any young man attached to a sheep station.
6. (Australia) A participant in a cadetship.

Derived terms

• air cadet
• cadet blue
• cadet gray
• cadet grey
• officer cadet
• space cadet

 

Related terms

• cadette

Translations

a student at a military school who is training to be an officer

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: تِمْلِيذ عَسْكَرِيّ‎ m (timlīḏ ʿaskariyy), تِمْلِيذَة عَسْكَرِيَّة‎ f (timlīḏa(t) ʿaskariyya) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: курсант m (kursant), курсантка f (kursantka); кадзет m (kadzjet), кадэт m (kadet), кадзетка f (kadzjetka), кадэтка f (kadetka) Bulgarian: каде́т m (kadét), ю́нкер m (júnker) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: kadet c Esperanto: kadeto sg Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kadetti (fi) French: cadet (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Kadett (de) m, Offiziersanwärter (de) m Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Icelandic: kadett m Irish: dalta m, dalta airm m Italian: cadetto (it) m, allievo ufficiale m Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: kariūnas m Macedonian: началниче (načalniče) Maori: hōia tauira, tama hōia Norwegian: Bokmål: kadett m Nynorsk: kadett m Persian: دانشجوی افسری‎ (dânešju-ye afsari) Polish: kadet (pl) m Portuguese: cadete (pt) m Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: курса́нт (ru) m (kursánt), каде́т (ru) m (kadét), ю́нкер (ru) m (júnker) (historical) Scottish Gaelic: òglach m Slovak: please add this translation if you can Tagalog: kadete Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

younger son

Danish: yngre søn c French: puîné (fr) m German: jüngerer Bruder m, jüngerer Sohn m Italian: cadetto (it) m Walloon: racoulot (wa) m (from many children)

References

1. “cadet”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
2. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “cadet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

• cadet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acted, ectad

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan capdet, from Late Latin capitellum (“small head”). Doublet of chapiteau and cadeau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.dɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

cadet (feminine cadette, masculine plural cadets, feminine plural cadettes)

1. (family) youngest

   le fils cadet ― the youngest son

Noun

cadet m (plural cadets)

1. cadet, student officer
2. junior sportsperson, young player
3. a younger sibling

Derived terms

• cadet des soucis de

Descendants

• → Czech: kadet
• → English: cadet
  • → Cebuano: kadete (with Spanish cadete)
• → Dutch: kadee, kadet
• → German: Kadett
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: кадет
    • Latin: kadet
  • → Vilamovian: kadet
• → Finnish: kadetti
• → Indonesian: kadet
• → Italian: cadetto
• → Polish: kadet
• → Portuguese: cadete
• → Russian: кадет (kadet)
  • → English: Kadet
• → Scots: caddie
  • → English: caddie, caddy, cad
• → Spanish: cadete
  • → Cebuano: kadete (with English cadet)

See also

• benjamin

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cédât

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Latin

Verb

cadet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of cadō

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Romanian

Etymology

From French cadet.

Noun

cadet m (plural cadeți)

1. cadet

Declension

Declension of cadet

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cadet	cadetul	(niște) cadeți	cadeții
genitive/dative	(unui) cadet	cadetului	(unor) cadeți	cadeților
vocative	cadetule		cadeților