infantia

== Latin == === Etymology === From īnfāns (“mute, speechless; young, little”) +‎ -ia. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ĩːˈfan.ti.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [iɱˈfan.t͡si.a] === Noun === īnfantia f (genitive īnfantiae); first declension inability to speak, muteness, speechlessness; want of eloquence, ineloquence infancy, early childhood; the young, children childishness ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === 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, 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.