infant

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
  2. A minor.
    — Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...
  3. A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK,countable
  4. A noble or aristocratic youth. obsolete
    — Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].
动词 v.
  1. To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general. obsolete
    — This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is […] infanted out of the same fears.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to the earlier half of primary school education. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK,not-comparable
    — Primary schooling in Ireland comprises two Infant years, which are equivalent to pre-school in other countries , and six grades or classes.
  2. small, being near its source. figuratively,not-comparable
    — Leaving Nantyglo, a small station at an altitude of 1,030 ft. with the platform on the eastern side, the train runs northwards over former G.W.R. metals, with the infant River Ebbw, a little more than a yard wide, on the west.

词形变化

infants plural infaunt alternative,obsolete infaunt alternative,obsolete infants present,singular,third-person infanting participle,present infanted participle,past infanted past infaunt alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.
词源 3
Inherited from Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.
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