英语词汇infant的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	infant
词源	infant; infantry. First recorded by John Wycliffe in 1382 in- fant comes from the Latin infans, “unable to speak.” It once meant a “childe” or “a young knight, a youth of gentle birth” as well as a baby. Thus we have the word infantry for foot soldiers, “soldiers too young and inexperienced to serve in the cavalry.”
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