enfant
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French enfant, from Old French enfant, from Latin īnfantem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]enfant m or f by sense (plural enfants)
- child (someone who is not yet an adult)
- child (offspring of any age)
- son, native (of a place)
- enfant de Paris ― Paris native
- enfant des États-Unis ― native of the United States
- enfant du pays ― native of the country
Usage notes
[edit]Rarely used as a feminine noun.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Saint Dominican Creole French: z'enfant
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “enfant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French enfant.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]enfant m (plural enfanz)
Descendants
[edit]- French: enfant
Occitan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably borrowed from Latin īnfāns, īnfāntem.
Noun
[edit]enfant m (plural enfants)
Related terms
[edit]Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably borrowed from Latin īnfāntem, accusative singular of īnfāns. The nominative form enfes derives from the Latin nominative form īnfāns.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]enfant oblique singular, m (oblique plural enfanz, nominative singular enfes, nominative plural enfant)
- child
- 13th century, Herman de Valenciennes, Assomption Nostre Dame, page 8, column 1, line 28:
- totes les puceles & trestuit li enfant
- All the young women and all the children
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