• IPA: /ˈɪn.fənt/

infant (plural infants)

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.

   Synonyms: baby

2. (legal) A minor.
   • 1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]: De Term. S. Trin. 1731, page 602:

     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. (obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:

     Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].

• French: nourrisson, enfant en bas âge, poupon
• German: Säugling, Wickelkind, Kind, Kleinkind, kleines Kind, Kriechling, Baby
• Italian: bambino, bambina, infante
• Portuguese: infante
• Russian: младе́нец
• Spanish: nene, infante

• German: Minderjähriger, Minderjährige
• Italian: minorenne, minore
• Portuguese: menor

infant (infants, present participle infanting; simple past and past participle infanted)

1. (obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.
   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC ↗:

     This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is […] infanted out of the same fears.