The corpus record — Latin

infans

that cannot speak

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Distribution

Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. in-fans — Lewis & Short

that cannot speak

2. infäns — Walde–Hofmann

tis „wer noch nicht sprechen kann" („unmündig*, vgl

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 340; entry #5361 Review: Under source audit
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan p. 729; entry #1396 Review: Under source audit

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